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Coconut Carrier

Coconut Carrier

Making a living by carrying coconuts to a beach shack, trundling back and forth across the beach.

How many livings are dependent upon tourism - and how many traditional subsistences have paradoxically thus been destroyed?

And what jobs you can do are dependent upon into which caste you were born. So the sons and daughters of Brahmins are making relative or absolute fortunes in IT, films etc in the cities and the children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren of the Untouchables are reclassified and do the lowest menial jobs.

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