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Fifty shades of Indian poverty

Back in the 1980s when I was a post-graduate student pursuing economics at the Gokhale Institute in Pune, we were perhaps the last of the batch to listen to guest lectures by the late VM Dandekar.
From palm-sized Chihuahuas to Great Danes that could pass for small horses, dogs today come in more shapes than any other ...