With the compensation money, Pushpabai of Akpuri village, Vidarbha, repaid her husband's debt to the moneylender, but not to the bank.
(Photographs: Vijay S Jodha And Oxford University Press)Devarajula Latha of Chilpuru village, Telangana: Her husband, who was a tenant farmer, did not own land. So Latha is still awaiting compensation as the rules make it difficult for linking tenant farmers' suicide to agrarian distress
(Photographs: Vijay S Jodha And Oxford University Press)Savita of Borgaon village, Vidarbha: She had to struggle to get the compensation money as both the land and the loan were in her mother-in-law's name
(Photographs: Vijay S Jodha And Oxford University Press)Bocha Manisha, of Gauraya Palle village, Telangana: Both her parents committed suicide. Later, her grandmother too passed away. She now works to support herself and her brother
(Photographs: Vijay S Jodha And Oxford University Press)Manjubai of Son Wadhona village, Vidarbha: Debts remain even after death. Manjubai used the compensation money to pay private moneylenders from whom her husband had taken a loan
(Photographs: Vijay S Jodha And Oxford University Press)