The indigenous people from the Saharia tribe constituting a small minority of the rural population in Datia district of Madhya Pradesh now find themselves caught in a process of transition that has created huge gaps in terms of food security and livelihood needs. Newri village, falling under the Badauni Panchayat of Datia tehsil, was in the news channel after a television news channel projected the villagers as eating chapattis made of grass due to extreme poverty and food shortage, However, a trip to Newri by this correspondent revealed an entirely different story.