The article deals with the rising incidence of kabootarbazi, or human trafficking in Punjab. The Mughals introduced kabootarbazi, the art of pigeon-flying in India; its current connotations, however, are less innocuous. Trafficking specialists - travel agents, politicians, pop stars, sports officials - has sprung up, offering creative solutions that pivot on the Great Indian Rope Trick: ascend the rope of a foreign junket - as member of a sports team or pop singer's troupe or a folk dancer's group - and, on scaling foreign shores, poof, vanish! Recently, on Easter vacation in Tuscany, I came face-to-face with one such pigeon and learned the story of his flight.
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