So, the image has nothing to do with what I am going to add here, and its more for me, than the readers. But the readers are welcome to read. The article New Village Idiom, written by an Indian economist is trying to explain how India is not as rural or as backward, as it has been made out to be. Granted about 70% of Indians live in rural areas, primarily involved in farming, compared to nearly 21% in the US, but looking at definitions of what it means to be rural or urban....the author, Prof. Bibek Roy (also a prolific author on culture), highlights that villages can be further classified and that larger villages perform pretty much 'like urban towns'--thereby blurring the lines between rural and urban.
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