As you walk down the streets in Karunapuram village of Kallakurichi district in Tamil Nadu, you see pandals cover the front of house after house. Families and acquaintances gather in grief in front of nearly every street in the village. Of the 34 total deaths linked to liquor poisoning deaths, 23 were from Karunapuram, an area where around 1,500 families reside. “There is a death in each house,” Kumar, an angry relative of one victim tells TNM. “In just this area alone, so many people have died. There are more than 105 people admitted in hospital. The doctors are telling us that they cannot be saved,” he says.
