As offices emptied on Friday evenings and people headed home to unwind, Dr P. Sudhakar Naik was just beginning another journey.

Instead of looking forward to a restful weekend, the IRS officer boarded an overnight bus from Mumbai to Narayankhed in Telangana, travelling more than 600 kilometres to reach one of the state’s most drought-hit regions. By Monday morning, he would be back at his desk as Joint Commissioner in the Income Tax Department, as though it had been an ordinary weekend.

But there was nothing ordinary about the reason he travelled.

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