We recover it from the tourist.’ ‘How?’ I am alarmed. ‘Don’t worry, not your type of customers. We cover it up from pilgrimage tourists. People who visit dhams before dying, those people are generally easy with money.’ ‘Why not my kind of tourists?’ ‘Because you will go from Agra to Jaipur and go to your hotel. The pilgrim tourists travel with us for 10-15 days. In every dham, there are many agents for everything. We have a setting with them. Hotels, restaurants, chaiwala, sadhus, pundits, everyone is a part of it. That’s where we really earn money as commission.’ ‘Really?’ I had an idea about
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