03 May 2011

When children playing in the fields let a ball fly into the compound by mistake, the owners never let them retrieve it but gave them 50 rupees to buy a new one, said one of the neighbors, a woman with a small boy on her hip. Reluctant to be quoted in the media, she gave her name as only Bibi, which translates as Miss or Mrs. Even when the children began to throw balls in on purpose to gain more money, the owners still kept paying, she said laughing.