8 September 2011
Rupa Jha reports from Kasargod in Kerala.
The Indian supreme court is due to decide on the use of a controversial pesticide blamed for causing neurological and congenital deformities in babies.
The court has already imposed a temporary ban across India, but the government in Delhi says Endosulfan is a cheap and effective pesticide, and there is not enough evidence to outlaw it nationally.
The southern state of Kerala, where Endosulfan was regularly sprayed from helicopters, brought in a ban 11 years ago - but campaigners say it is still having an impact on the lives of children born today.
