Indians Starve As Politicians Steal Billions Of Dollars Worth Of Food

Indians Starve As Politicians Steal Billions Of Dollars Worth Of Food
In this Monday, Oct. 17, 2011, photograph, students come out of their class in a lower primary school in Khankar village on the outskirts of Gauhati, India. At least eighty poor children study in the lower primary school, which was set up by villagers in Khankar village without any government aid. (AP Photo/ Anupam Nath)
In this Monday, Oct. 17, 2011, photograph, students come out of their class in a lower primary school in Khankar village on the outskirts of Gauhati, India. At least eighty poor children study in the lower primary school, which was set up by villagers in Khankar village without any government aid. (AP Photo/ Anupam Nath)

Ram Kishen, 52, half-blind and half- starved, holds in his gnarled hands the reason for his hunger: a tattered card entitling him to subsidized rations that now serves as a symbol of India's biggest food heist.

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