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Nations like their stories large. They prefer epics to blog posts, victories to routines, slogans to conversations. In these grand narratives, history marches forward with flags unfurled and voices raised in (manufactured) unison. But ordinary lives do not march; they wait – at bus stops, hospital corridors, ration shops. Their lives are not shaped by moments of national glory but by small negotiations with time, money, illness, and hope. Grand stories are fine; the problem is they ig...
