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In this Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011 photo, dalit Hari Kishan Pippal, 60, a member of India's outcast community once known as untouchables, poses for a photograph inside his Heritage Hospital, one of the largest private medical facilities in the north Indian city of Agra. Raised in poverty, he only made it through high school before his father became ill, and he had to go to work pulling a rickshaw to support the family. The vast majority of India's 170 million dalits live amid a thicket of grim statistics: less than a third are literate, well over 40 percent survive on less than $2 a day, infant mortality rates are dramatically higher than among higher castes. Pippal now owns a hospital, a shoe factory, a car dealership and a publishing company. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)
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Men hooked up to saline IVs crowd a hospital hallway in Diamond Harbor, India, on Thursday after drinking methanol-laced alcohol Tuesday night. The bootleg liquor has killed scores and sent scores more to hospitals. At least seven bootleggers have been arrested, and police were searching for two others suspected of supplying the spirits to poor villagers. (Associated Press)
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Indian patients receive intravenous saline solution during treatment in a hospital in Diamond Harbour, India, near Kolkata, on Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011, after drinking tainted liquor. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)
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People help carry a patient out of a hospital after it caught fire in Kolkata, India, Friday, Dec. 9, 2011. The fire swept through the hospital early Friday, sending emergency workers scrambling to evacuate patients and medical staff from the smoke-filled building, officials said. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)
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Mohammed Zaffar Patel, standing second left, weds Jannat Khan, third left, at a marriage registrar's office in Mumbai, India, Friday, Nov. 11, 2011. Because of the days numerical conjunction, 11.11.11, people believe it to be an auspicious day leading thousands of couples to tie their knots on this day across India. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)
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Newly born babies lie at a government hospital in Hyderabad, India, on Monday. Already the second most populous country with 1.2 billion people, India is expected to overtake China around 2030 when its population soars to an estimated 1.6 billion. (Associated Press)
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An Indian mother sees her baby boy moments after his birth at a hospital in Guahati, India, on Monday, Oct. 31, 2011. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
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**FILE** A dummy BlackBerry handset stands at a shop Aug. 27, 2010, in Hyderabad, India. (Associated Press)
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai delivers a lecture in New Delhi on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011, the second day of his two-day official visit to India. (AP Photo/Gurinder Osan)
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Exiled Tibetan monks hold a candlelight vigil in Dharmsala, India, as they react to news reports of self-immolation by two Tibetan monks at the Kirti Monastery in China's Sichuan province. The two monks, who are in stable condition after being rescued by police, called out "long live the Dalai Lama," according to Free Tibet. (Associated Press)
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On Monday, Sept. 19, 2011, a villager in Yadong County in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region looks at a cow killed in a strong earthquake that hit neighboring Sikkim in northern India on Sunday evening. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Gesang Dawa)
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Residents and patients from a local hospital take shelter in a Hindu temple on Monday, Sept. 19, 2011, after Sunday's earthquake in Gangtok, India. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
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Residents fearing more aftershocks following Sunday's strong earthquake sit on a basketball court at a university in Gangtok, India, on Monday, Sept. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
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On Monday, Sept. 19, 2011, a Buddhist monk looks at a monastery damaged by Sunday's earthquake in Gangtok, India. (AP Photo)
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A family eats dinner on Monday, Sept. 19, 2011, after taking shelter in a Hindu temple in fear of more aftershocks following Sunday's earthquake in Gangtok, India. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
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On Monday, Sept. 19, 2011, Indians walk past a crack in a road caused by an earthquake in Gangtok, India, on Sunday. The powerful temblor damaged more than 100,000 homes in the remote Himalayan region, officials said. (AP Photo)
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Residents on Monday, Sept. 19, 2011, stand near the debris of a building that collapsed following an earthquake in Gangtok, India. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
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A young Indian girl who was injured in a building collapse that followed a magnitude-6.9 earthquake is treated at a hospital in Siliguri, India, on Monday, Sept. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
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Women in Katmandu, Nepal, remove bricks from a damaged house on Monday, Sept. 19, 2011, to make way for pedestrians after a magnitude-6.9 earthquake shook northeastern India, Nepal and Tibet on Sunday night. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
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Residents stand near the debris of a building that collapsed in Gangtok, India, the capital of Sikkim state in northeastern India, after the earthquake. The temblor killed people in Nepal, Tibet and India.
