Media circus in UP village as sarkar chases golden dream

The hunt for a 1,000-tonne gold treasure had shades of the Hollywood western, Mackenna's Gold. But the media circus that the occasion spawned was pure Peepli Live. Seers furiously chanted mantra, television reporters from home and abroad jostled for space, villagers frantically clicked snapshots and posted them on social media — the scene at the village in central Uttar Pradesh was indeed a mix of the surreal and the post-modern.

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