Monday, May 02, 2011

What the pesticide endosulfan did to these children in Kerala, India...

Twelve-year-old Badusha can't run; he can't play like other children.

Permanently bedridden, this young boy is symbolic of what many allege are the effects of endosulfan, a pesticide used by farmers in India.

He is a living testimony of the harmful effects of endosulfan in Kasaragod.

This is a condition of the children in a state whose tourism tag line says 'God's own country', but tragically the children of this state have been neglected by the successive governments. More...

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