While walking through the Jaipur walled city one evening, I came across a very small, dimly lit, one-man shop that specialised in repairing sewing machines. Some of the machines with him were very old, pieces of antiques in their own right. A walk through the old part of most big cities in India should reveal small repair shops / repair men who would fix anything from old blenders to radios to the oldest model of scooters. The not-so-well-to-do, the poor and many others in India do not (or can not) embrace the ‘throwaway’ or ‘upgrade’ culture.