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Indian problem solving relies on chaotic ingenuity

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When conventional fixes fail, locals deploy 'jugaad', a flexible approach to overcoming massive obstacles with whatever garbage is nearby. From fixing tractors with wooden planks to cooling rooms with recycled plastic bottles, it is an improvised engineering marvel born entirely out of chaotic necessity.

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