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The cashless economy of Chikalthana

In Chikalthana village, on the edge of and merging with Aurangabad town in Maharashtra, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s dream of a cashless economy seems to have been [...]
‘Captain Elder Brother’ and the whirlwind army

Early this month (September) I found nine surviving freedom fighters of the toofan sena in Satara and Sangli. This was the armed wing of the prati sarkar, the provisional [...]
Welcome to Hotel Selfie on the highway

He knows gold when he sees it. “I can tell the number of carats of an ornament if you place it in my hand,” says Rafiq Papabhai Sheikh. “I am a johari” (jeweller; in [...]

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