Elderly Indian father ready for child number 22 Jodphur, India
31 August 2007 03:40
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An Indian farmer who has fathered his 21st child at the ripe old age of 90
says he wants to carry on having children until he is 100 -- but his wife is
throwing in the towel.
Nanu Ram Jogi is revered by the menfolk of Paanchimli village in the western
desert state of Rajasthan where the nonagenarian lives with 109 members of his
extended family, including 20 grandchildren.
"I can go on like this for at least 10 more years," said Nanu Ram Jogi, proudly
pointing at the baby girl his 50-year-old wife, Saburi, delivered in August in
their modest home.
But his wife, who is his fourth, says she has had enough after delivering 13
children.
Jogi, who belongs to the hardy Banjara nomadic tribe, said earlier this week
that he had his first child in 1943 and now has nine daughters and 12 sons.
"He was full of get-up-and-go then and it's the same even now," said friend
Mange Lal by telephone from Paanchimli, 350km from Jodhpur, the sparsely
populated state's wealthiest city.
Jogi attributes his vitality to "the miracle of camel milk" and a carnivorous
diet of lamb, rabbit and chicken.
He has had to sell patches of farmland to take care of his ever-expanding
family, but now a number of his children have become breadwinners. -- Sapa-AFP
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