A logistics firm, Wintrack, dares to dream big in the land advertised as a haven of opportunity, fuelling Chennai's bustling ports with the promise of global trade. Then, like clockwork in a Kafkaesque nightmare, the Chennai Customs machinery kicks in.

Not with efficiency, mind you, but with the subtlety of a mafia disguised as bureaucracy. It stalls operations of the company allegedly on flimsy grounds.

Despite twice calling out brazen bribery demands earlier this year, Wintrack's CEO Prawin Ganeshan watches his business get “crippled and destroyed.” Containers seized on whims, shipments held for 45 days.

After enduring “relentless harassment,” on October 1, the death dream finally meets its grave:: Wintrack stops operations in India. “Corruption won this battle,” Ganeshan posts on X

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