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A Toilet in Every Home
In 2010, I found myself working in Noida, India – a modern pop-up city on the outskirts of Delhi.
Narendra Modi, a lifelong political operative, was angling to become the 14th prime minister of India. One of the more unusual planks of his platform was the aspiration to put a toilet in every home. (At the time, about half the homes in India didn’t have indoor toilets, and those that did were predominantly in cities or their surrounding sprawl.)