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Before there were patents and billion-dollar supply chains, there was a woman standing outside a headmaster’s office. Every morning. For a year. Shekhar Natarajan is still running the code she wrote. Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], February 27: The school uniform is plaid — the kind of cheap synthetic fabric that softens with age, that every laundry cycle softens a little more until it starts to look like something worn with love rather than worn out. A hundred children are wearing it on this particular morning in a courtyard of cracked concrete in one of Hyderabad’s underserved settlements. They’ve crowded around a…
