A group of young men chat among themselves in Mandawar's quiet lanes. It is a scene nothing out of the ordinary in rural India.
But back in November 2016, events in this village, barely 50km from India's capital and nestled against the backdrop of the ancient Aravalli hills, had taken an extraordinary turn.
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