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In 1994, Mahanand Naik was a 25-year-old bearded man who drove an autorickshaw in Shiroda, about 40km south of Goa’s capital Panaji. Darshana Naik, 21, lived in the house opposite his. “She stayed alone at home when we worked in the paddy fields,” her 75-year-old mother Laxmi Naik recalls. On…