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here’s a spectacular sunset going on, and I am squashed into the back of a tiny tuk-tuk in Jaipur with my friends Sarah and Carin, on our way to supper. Like the other 100003 tuk-tuks, 58092 rickshaws, 378 dogs and 164 cows alongside us, we are clustered around one tiny traffic circle. The idea seems to be to conquer the circle rather than circumnavigate it. We are going in 360 directions at once, and

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