A man with 39 wives and 94 childrens

Deepa Rai Bangdel
Lalitpur, March 2

In India's remote Northeast, Ziona Chana, 66 year old man has 39 wives,
94 childrens and 33 grandchildrens and would not mind having more.
'' I once married 10 women in one year '' he said. They all live in a four storey building with 100 rooms and share a common kitchen. The wives take turns cooking, while his daughters do all the housework and men do outdoors works.
The total family, 167 consumes around 91 Kg of rice and more than 59 Kg of
potatoes a day. Ziona said, '' even today, I am ready to expand my family and willing
to go to any extent to marry. I have so many people to care and I consider myself a
lucky man. '' He followed Christian religious sect, called the 'Chana' , which allows
polygamy.