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Passport as instrument of peaceful protest
Business Standard
|May 19, 2025
It was 1989. My spouse and I were in Madurai, stepping out of our hotel to visit the Meenakshi temple, when we were surrounded by cycle-rickshaw drivers vying for our attention.
One voice cut through the din — "Aao, aao Beso" (Come, come, sit — in Gujarati). The phrase was so unexpected — we understand Gujarati but aren't Gujarati ourselves — that we promptly chose his rickshaw.
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