On a November morning in 2014, with the help of local intermediaries, dozens of women were picked up and taken to sterilization camps not very far from where Rai was based. Though Rai was not involved in organizing that camp, it is the kind of programme that he regularly assists the district administration in putting together. At the camp, tubectomy was being performed on women in a frenzy – yet another population control overdrive. Within hours of the surgeries, the women who had been operated upon began to fall ill. Over a hundred of them were rushed to hospitals in Bilaspur, and at least
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