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No Borders: Manganiyar Seduction

I’ve lived a lot of my life in borderlands. Draw a line in the dust and suddenly ‘we’ become ‘them’. The popular mythology is that people on ‘that’ side of the border are different. They are not ‘us’, even though they were ‘us’ for centuries before the line was drawn on the map. This way of looking at the world has fascinated me because, like the Emperor’s new clothes, it doesn’t seem to…