This is an excellent post: Jugaad – improvised vehicle design in India.

Meanwhile, here in the UK, people are paying top dollar for broken lights attached to broken toys. Reclaimed luminaires.

So, what’s the difference? Where’s the joke? Is there a living to be made by importing amusing jerry-rigged duct-tape designs from India to the West? Is there a class of Indian who’ll pay crores of rupees to buy a piece of weird machinery knocked together in a backstreet out of trash?

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