by AMY KAZMIN
A few hours’ drive from the modern software parks, sleek shopping malls and brightly coloured apartment towers of Hyderabad, the Indian information technology hub, the town of Narsampet survives by selling agricultural pumps, fertiliser, seeds, clothes and other essentials to the mostly poor farmers of the surrounding water-scarce villages.
But this little trading post and its environs are in the grip of a growing political fervour – backing demands for New Delhi to grant separate statehood to their parched region, known as Telangana.
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