India - This woebegone village is virtually on crutches

This woebegone village is virtually on crutches
Chikkaballapur, Mar 22, 2012, DHNS :
40 people at Yeralakkenahalli in Gudibande taluk are disabled
It is as though this entire village is crippled. Disability knows no barriers as every family at Yeralakkenahalli in Gudibande taluk has two or three disabled members.
While most of them are speech impaired, others have physical disabilities.
There are more than 40 disabled people in this tiny village, including school and college students. People here mostly blame the fluoridated water that they are forced to drink for their predicament. Worse, the disabilities are being passed on to the newborns from the parents.....