Millions of people have lost their homes, livelihoods and foodgrain stocks in the lashing wind and non-stop rain that deluged coastal Orissa, in eastern India, last month. But this area has seen recurrent droughts, gradual impoverishment and starvation deaths, for a century. It could take months, even years, for the survivors to put their lives together in a state which is synonymous with ''hunger deaths'' in the mineral-rich but terribly poor hunger belt of Bolangir, Koraput and Kalahandi.