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We Are Growing the Wrong Rice and Everybody in the Village Knows It
My uncle's field flooded in June, which is what it is for. It flooded again in the second week of August, which is not, and the second flood took the crop. He replanted. The replanting failed too, …
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Three Years of a Structural Change Went Into the Seasonal Factor
The seasonally adjusted number came in at a level everyone described as steady. The unadjusted number for that month was the weakest for that month in eleven years. Both are published. One of them …
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They Moved the Meeting to Four O'Clock and Nobody Called It a Reform
On 12 March 1974 the town council voted five to one to move its regular meeting from seven in the evening to four in the afternoon. The minutes give the reason: overtime for the clerk and the custo…
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The Cooperative Lends Against a Field It Will Never Take
The loan officer in Besisahar showed me a ledger of forty-one outstanding agricultural loans, of which he expected to recover perhaps thirty-five. On the remaining six, the security was land. He ha…
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The Software Was Right and the Line Was Down
The dashboard said the press was running at ninety-four percent utilisation. I was standing next to the press. It was not running.
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The School Ends at Sixteen and the Road Only Goes One Way
The school in the village goes to class ten. Class eleven and twelve — what everybody calls plus two — are in the town, which is two and a half hours by bus when the road is open and is not always …
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Every Secondhand Copy Is Cracked in the Same Place
I own four used copies of the same nineteenth-century novel, bought at different times and in different states, and if you stand them on a table and look at the spines from the side, three of them …
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Everyone at the Party Said the Same Four Sentences
I counted. It was a housewarming in October outside Columbus, about thirty people, and by the end of the evening I had heard "we're so lucky with the light in here" from four different guests, thre…
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He Built the Best Version of Her Argument and She Said That's Not Why
A man in my Thursday group at the county library once spent eleven minutes constructing the strongest possible case for a position he does not hold. It was a good case. It was better organised than…
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He Has Been Preparing for Six Years and His Family Calls It a Job
In a lane behind a coaching centre in Prayagraj there is a room with four charpoys in it, rented by four young men from three districts, and on the wall above the door somebody has written the date…
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