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Nagpur’s Orange Gold: The Bitter, Sweet, and Tangled Story of the Nagpur Santra

When you think of Nagpur, you think of oranges. A basket full of them, golden and loose-skinned. They call it the Orange City of India, and in the winter, when the air chills and the harvest comes in, you can feel it. But the fruit you buy at a market is the last sentence of a long, complicated story. A story that starts not in a basket, but in the heat and dust of the Vidarbha soil.

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