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    What the City Forgot: Lessons in Living from India’s Indigenous Cultures.

    Why we lose ourselves in WiFi, and find ourselves in the mountains.  We, the millennials and Gen Zs of the metro cities, scrolling through reels on mental health while gulping cold coffee and juggling multiple internet tabs. Somewhere between grocery home deliveries and soft boards that look straight out of a murder mystery, we’ve turned life into a never-ending to-do list. Meanwhile, India’s indigenous communities, often dismissed as “backward,” are out there living lives of balance, groundedness and joy that most of us only dream about during spa sessions that we schedule on Urban Company. This isn’t about romanticising rural poverty or denying progress. This is about acknowledging the gaps…