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This week on Stories · 2–8 Nov
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Varanasi wakes up one clay cup of chai at a time.
Before the boats, before the bells, there is the chai stall. Raju lights his stove at a quarter past five on the steps above Assi Ghat, and by the time the sky turns pink he has already poured a hundred cups.
A herd that has learned to live beside a highway.
Tal Chhapar is a small sanctuary, barely seven square kilometres of grass. On a map it looks like nothing. On the ground it holds more than two thousand blackbuck.
Inside the lanes where Lucknow's chikankari is still stitched by hand.
The first thing you notice in the lanes behind Chowk is how quiet the work is. There are no machines here, only the soft pull of thread through muslin and the occasional radio playing old film songs from a doorway.
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