They travelled to the Gulf to build lives back home - a journey to the Indian villages of seven crash victims

The National ·
United Arab Emirates

A generation ago, the first men from villages in Telangana and Uttar Pradesh left for the Gulf. Most departed because of a letter from someone who had gone before, or a rumour from the tea shop, or just knowing that someone from the next village had gone and had come back with something to show for it. They didn’t really know what to expect. They went anyway. Many of those men later returned. But…

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