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Gautam Bachute works for the Marathi daily Pudhari. He gets a 16 percent commission per ad. âCan I meet you in the evening?â Mahadev Kale, 45, a journalist with the Marathi paper Dainik Loknayak in Maharashtraâs Beed district, replied when we asked to speak with him one early June morning. âI am out at the farm with my goats.â Herding goats is Mahadevâs âside jobâ. He takes out his flock in the morning and gathers news from Beedâs Kaij taluka through the day, thatâs how he provides for his wife and three daughters aged 18, 15 and 13. Or did, until a year and half ago when the pandemic hit and his irregular income from the reporting job almost dried up. His precarious situation has only worsened this year: since Beed was locked down on March 24 to contain the spiralling pandemic, he has not been able to sell any of his 12 goats. ....