Agony in India Dust Bowl Prompts Modi U-Turn on Policy He Mocked

Harkiya, a 47-year-old single mother with no income who lives on money borrowed from relatives, and has no cash to take her sick daughter to the hospital -- all the more worrying because her husband and son died from a mysterious illness last year., sits for a photograph at her home in the village of Shyampura in Tikamgarh, Madhya Pradesh, India, on Saturday, Feb. 9, 2016. Rising discontent in rural India is pressuring Prime Minister Narendra Modi to spend more on the $5 billion jobs program in his budget on Feb. 29. Photographer: Prashanth Vishwanathan/Bloomberg via Getty Images