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Illustration: Ajay Mohanty
He was a stout, illiterate man, the son of a butcher, struggling to earn enough to feed his thirteen children by weaving handloom cotton in his small house, when he suddenly stumbled upon an idea that could increase his income and expand his could feed the family. The idea was to make a small improvement in his spinning wheel with the same effort, so that this was possible. So he installed eight different spindles driven by a single wheel. This allowed him to produce eight threads in the same time it previously took to produce one. He called this turning
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First print: June 2, 2024 | 8:30 IN THE EVENING IST