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WFV - Work from village, India style

Some professionals are finding new joy in working from their home towns in rural India

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Software product developer Srividhya Balakrishnan, 27, loves working in her airy childhood home in Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, over the flat she shares with friends in the state capital, Chennai.

PHOTO: COURTESY OF SRIVIJAYA BALAKRISHNAN

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BANGALORE - For many Indians, three key moments frame the year-long catastrophe of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The first, the overnight nationwide lockdown the government imposed on March 24 last year. The virtual ban on movement upended lives, bringing misery to many, but sometimes also inspiration.
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