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I can’t understand it. My sister in the capital, she now has all these things that do the work faster. She just buys her clothes in a shop, she has a jeep, a telephone, a gas cooker. All of these things save so much time, and yet when I go to visit her, she doesn’t have time to talk to me.

-Ladakhi Villager

N.E. Kashmir, Indian-Tibetan border