In India’s tiniest state, Goa, with the country’s second-highest per capita income, where beach villas sell for crores, and the GDP charts shine, a man’s body lay abandoned for a night because his family could not afford firewood. In a state that boasts of being India’s richest on paper, Ashok Palyekar’s final journey needed charity for firewood and in the tiniest, richest state, dignity had a price the poorest could not pay.