By John Solomon
How the government's punishing of the exposure of official wrongdoing can linger for years
They come together each morning from the sloping forests. Some walk for more than an hour along muddy footpaths past terraced farms stacked like soft green steps. Some race their new motorbikes down narrow, cracked roads cut into the hillsides.
Still, the impact of bringing respectable jobs into the village has been enormous, said Madhavan, from the local development group.
"You couldn't imagine this as a possibility five years ago," he said. "But today it's happened."