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World Service,4 mins

The village that just got its own fridge

Newshour

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In India, fridges are the second most-desired household object after a television. Only one-third of the population own one, but that proportion's rising fast. Our correspondent Sanjoy Majumder travelled to the Indian state of West Bengal to meet a tailor who's just bought his very first fridge.

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