Koppal: In a different kind of role reversal, a six-year-old girl named Bhagyashree has resorted to begging since last one week to feed her mother, Durgamma, who is admitted to a hospital after years of alcoholism. Bhagyashree told reporters in Koppal, "I don't have my father so I want my mother to be well. I have no money that is why I have to beg. I asked people for money and used to feed my mother with that money."

The mother has a severe drinking problem and her husband had left her to marry another woman, leaving only Bhagyashree to look after her. The six-year-old child has been begging in and around the hospital premises since the last one week. She has been feeding, cleaning her mother as well, all on her own, which drew the attention of the people visiting the hospital.