Two makeshift lamps - a few drops of oil in two aluminium bowls - in the corner of a mud hut with twigs and black tarpaulin for the roof tell you all you need to know about the affairs of the family mourning the death of their two children in Madhya Pradesh's Shivpuri district.
The two children - a 12-year-old girl and a 10-year-old boy from the so-called lower caste Dalit community - were beaten to death on Wednesday allegedly for defecating in the open in a country that will declare itself open-defecation free in less than a week, on the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.
