FOR years, a sense of the peculiar hit you each time you walked through this village. It was the large number of mentally handicapped children, neither afflicted by mysterious disease nor scourged by malnutrition. They were simply the products of consanguineous marriages forced upon Suggenahalli due to one extraordinary factor:the lack of drinking water. None from the neighbourhood was willing to offer their daughter's hand in marriage. And condemn her to the toil of fetching drinking water from a tank situated at least two km away.