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"So far we have captured 10 leopards," says AK Singh, the forest official deputed of the district.

When he failed to do so, his cousin Amy Lowell took on the task: “I like to imagine that the task has been deputed to me in his stead.”

As for María, there is something tired and clichéd about a Mexican woman’s being deputed to help a British fuddy-duddy embrace narrative spice.

The day after his death, she was deputed to deliver an emotional speech to the world's press, who had gathered at the quayside.

"There were many schools that only existed on paper in our area. Teachers were deputed in such schools and they were drawing salaries too - but the schools were completely dysfunctional," she says.