Two decades on, son struggles to bring back ostracised leprosy-afflicted mom

Ranchi | Tuesday | 17th July, 2018

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Later, she made a hut on her own with wood and tree leaves about 3 km away from the village. A committee is active in the district to launch an awareness about leprosy and it will look into the issue, she added. Since then, she has been living in the hut for the last two decades. "Mukesh said he was just a newborn when his mother was forced to leave the village after they came to know that his mother was suffering from leprosy. "The life of Sridevi is an ugly depiction of women empowerment in our state," he said..