India, Jan. 30 -- At first glance, Chandanki looks like many villages scattered across Gujarat's sunbaked plains. Low houses sit in neat rows. Fields stretch outward. Life moves at an unhurried, familiar pace. But arrive around lunchtime, and something feels conspicuously missing. There is no hiss of tempering oil, no clatter of steel plates, no one calling a neighbour in for a meal.

Instead, the village gathers elsewhere, in a shared space where food, conversation and care are prepared collectively. It is this quietly radical routine that Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighted on January 25, 2026, during the 130th episode of Mann Ki Baat. And now, just like us, everyone else who tuned in is curious.

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