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Bidar, Karnataka
W was the oldest of three brothers, and his family were called lingayat, devotees of the Hindu god Shiva. All members of his family, except one, were employed in a variety of jobs - one of his sons worked at a mess in Bengaluru, and another worked for a telecom company distributing network. None of them had any chronic medical ailments and therefore minimal hospital bills. W and his family obtained drinking water from a communal water tank, and when sometimes it dries out they sourced their water from one of the village handpumps - of which there were three.