Six hundred kilometers away in Mumbai, Rameshwar’s son, Arjun, was experiencing a different kind of morning. The “awakening” here was the relentless beep of his iPhone alarm. He lived in a 200-square-foot rented studio in Andheri East. The kolam outside his door was a fading sticker from Amazon. The scent in the air was not sandalwood or coffee, but the acrid mix of diesel fumes and the vada pav being fried by a street vendor three floors below.
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