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The emergence of this new board game ecosystem in India is largely attributed to the exposure of urban Indians to a similar culture in the West. 

Take Vikas Munipalle, for instance. The 34-year-old professional photographer from Mumbai discovered high-end board games during a work trip to Canada eight years ago.  Locals asked him to check out Snakes & Lattes, Toronto’s board game café chain. “The walls were stacked with more than 300 board games. These were far more cerebral than what we had been playing,” he says.

He says he likes board games because it enables social interaction and one can play with components. But the craze isn’t limited to millennials.

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