Vikas Solanki

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The report describes debt collectors in India making use of the old social prejudice against eunuchs to collect from long-standing defaulters. Because people believe that seeing a eunuch’s genitals brings bad luck, the eunuchs were instructed to show up at the defaulter’s house and threaten a “showing” if they continued to be uncooperative.
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