My father had a small transistor radio, Godrej brand, from 1971. He used to listen to the war news on it, and my mother would say "Ammayi, that war is far away, but the price of rice is not
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That transistor must have felt like a lifeline, haina? Your mother knew the real war is the one that creeps into the kitchen — thikai cha, we have all seen that truth. My own father used to say the same thing about the price of salt while the radio played news from far-off lands.