India is experiencing the biggest economic boom in its history. Within a generation, India economy will overtake Japan and Western Europe to become the third largest in the world. It now has the highest number of billionaires in Asia. Unlike China, the boom is not based on sweatshops and factories but on high skilled economic such as Information Technology and biotechnology, employing highly qualified graduates. The IT industry for example, only hires around 1.3 million people, barely 0.1% of the population. 70% of the Indian population live in the rural area and here, there are little signs of the economic miracle. Thousands of farmers live in abject poverty, with no money even to buy seeds to farm their land. There are numerous cases where farmers having to take out loans to buy poisons or kerosene to commit suicide. These photographs are taken in several orphanages and homes for disabled children in the rural areas outside Chennai, South India. Little of the money has reached them and the homes rely on the donations from relatively poor local rural populations. Many of the children were sent here after their parents committed suicide. Other children with disabilities were abandoned as the parents who work hand-to- mouth have no choice but to take on low paid, long hour work with no time to care for a disabled child.