Sahaswan as a whole had a lot of problems - unemployment, poverty, lack of access to health care, lack of access to education but even in the remotest of areas, in a village where no one had received education beyond class eight, the level of awareness among the residents, and particularly the women, surprised me. In a discussion about the political scenario in the area, the words “Samvidhan bachana hai” were thrown around several times, a rhetoric popularised by the opposition. When asked where they had heard that one of the old men who could barely sit up on his charpoy pointed to his smartphone, its front and back taped together, “hum phone mein sab dekh lete hain. Humko Dhruv Rathee achha lagta hai,” he says.