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A siren goes off at 7pm every evening in Vadgaon village in Sangli district, an indication to all residents to switch off their TV sets and mobile phones.

“The backlash is already beginning,” said Meena Saraswathi Seshu, general secretary of SANGRAM, a collective advocating for sex workers that is based in Sangli, Maharashtra state.

The family was prosperous, living in a large house in the city of Sangli, in what is now the state of Maharashtra.

A shopkeeper selling consumer goods displays Reliance's JioMart point-of-sale machine that he uses to order supplies for his store in Sangli, in the western state of Maharashtra, India, October 21, 2021 Picture taken October 21, 2021.

Shah is an official distributor for Britain's Reckitt Benckiser in Vita, near Sangli city, around 200 miles south of Mumbai.