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Showing posts with label famine. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Mizoram


Just back from Mizoram. We were the first TV crew to travel to the interiors of Mizoram and report on the largely unreported famine in the state. A famine that takes place every 48 years after bamboo bloom attracts rats, whose population explodes and thousands of acres of crops are wiped out.