They chose 82°30'E as it splits the country nearly in half, so the sun is overhead around noon for most, and IST is that time plus five hours and thirty minutes ahead of Greenwich. But this single time forces us in the east to start work too early in the dark, chala productivity loss. On my Hyderabad-Warangal route, I see the sun rise a full hour sooner in Warangal, yet we follow the same clock—it makes the loan on my car feel heavier because the working day is misaligned with nature.
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