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Home 59
Erode, Tamil Nadu
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N did not know how old any of his three daughters were. At ten in the morning, he lay on a mat in the yard outside his house with his breath reeking of alcohol. He lived with his wife and one of his daughters, who had both left to work at a road construction site. His daughters had all received primary school education and N himself worked odd jobs on daily wages and did not know what their family’s monthly income added up to. They also own three goats, who are fed vegetable waste from a nearby market. There was a firewood stove in the courtyard and N told us that they had been using that temporarily to cook food because the cylinder which supplied gas to their hobs had recently been stolen. N’s house had two small rooms and a bathroom. There was no toilet.