"A stinking quilt, a soiled chest and a quarter of a rotlo: that's all we knew and had in the name of a bank."

Chandu Maheria's memoir maps how caste organized appetite, dignity, and memory in working-class Ahmedabad. The power is in the scale: not arguments but objects. A quarter-piece of bread in a quilt. Five-paisa puris at the mill gate. A bag of bones and "our guilt tumbled out."

New blog post: https://whilewerebothrunning.com/posts/fifty-the-rotla-bank/

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