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The mix is poured into containers roughly the size of soup cans, where it cools and hardens before the boosters are shipped to customers.

Admirers, including Mahmood, point out that as the policies hardened, the poll ratings of the Social Democrat party rose - and those of a populist right-wing movement, the People's Party fell.

Yet in a provocative new book, The Caste Con Census, scholar-activist Anand Teltumbde warns that the exercise may harden the deeply discriminatory caste system, when the need is to dismantle it.

As hawkish opinion has hardened, doves have had less to say publicly, though they haven’t folded.

I knew it would take a while for the gum to harden, but it appeared to have sealed up the hole.