Click to play videoSaharsa (Bihar): While most parents have to trick their kids into drinking a glass of milk, in North Bihar's Saharsa district it's a different story.
Like kids elsewhere, after hours of playing kids in Saharsa too take a break from playing.
But its not milk that their mother insist they gulp down, that's a luxury for the kids in this part of the country, here, liquor works as a replacement for milk.
Innocent kids turning into addict boozers is quite unbelievable but unfortunately is true.
"When we ask mother for milk, she gives us liquor, we drink the liquor and go to sleep, she then cooks," says a kid, Pintu Murmu.
"When we ask for milk, mother gives us liquor and puts is to sleep," says another kid, Nimla.
This isn’t just one-off case, for most of the landless labourer families in Saharsa, it's a hand-to-mouth existence.
They can't afford two square meals a day even after working in the paddy fields the entire day, so they live on the easily available liquor, that prepared in every household of the village.
It's the circumstances, which have pushed the parents to do so as they have under stood that the kids once drunk will not make much noise, nor will demand food.
It’s no different story for the adults either, a few pegs in the morning keeps the adults going through the day on an empty stomach and in the evening, they get their first and last meal of the day.
"The kids always ask for food, that’s why we get them drunk and put them to sleep. After two to four hours we get food from somewhere and feed them," says father of the kids, Sukho Murmu.
So, after 61 years of independence, it's not the Government but liquor that helps the Saharsa kids fight hunger.
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