'It's always an inside job', Laxman replied. 'First, the dacoits gave the police ten percent, then the police started demanding more, twenty, thirty, forty. Finally it was phipty-phipty. Then the police said, "Why let them do it when we can do it ourselves?" So now the off-duty policemen are the dacoits.'

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Excerpt from "Stranger to History" by Aatish Taseer