Minakhi Misra

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    “If an apple costs five rupees and a lemon costs three rupees, how much will you have to pay for both?”

    I was sitting outside Raipur railway station, near a fruitseller’s pushcart, trying to teach a bunch of street kids a bit about money and how to count it.

    “Don’t bother with them, Saab,” said the fruitseller, a greying man who somehow reminded me of hailstone lemonades that my grandmother always talked of but never made. “They are only here because you offered them each a small platter. What do they care about all this?” (more…)

    March 19, 2016
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