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Bhushan Unde, 31, a farmer and computer operator, has a poor-paying job, no financial security and few prospects, he says, of finding a woman who might be willing to marry him [Kunal Purohit/Al Jazeera]

Yavatmal/Mumbai, India — On a warm Sunday afternoon in April, a group of farmers sits on a roadside bench at the intersection of the highway with their village, Raveri, in the Yavatmal district of western India’s Maharashtra state.

One of them, Bhushan Unde, 31, has his phone out and is looking for a meme on Instagram. He finds it and gathers the group around him. Unde also works at the local government hospital as a computer operator.