Photographer: Prashanth Vishwanathan/Bloomberg
The Woman Standing Between Modi and a Majority
The chief minister of a state with nearly 100 million people is leading the anti-Modi brigade, and dislodging her remains almost impossible.
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Santu Adhikari scavenges with scarred hands through the rubble of a Tata Motors factory where he once hoped to work. But the plant was torn down before it was finished, and the 28-year-old now spends his days among its ruins in this field outside Kolkata, hunting for scrap iron to sell.