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| Photo courtesy of Bhavana Nissima Upadhyaya |
This is Muthulakshmi. She lives in a village 10
kilometers away. She visits her home once a week. On the rest of the days she sleeps
on the porch of a nearby bank, freshens up and washes her clothes at a
resthouse for 10 rupees a day, and eats at a common eatery with others like
her.
I saw her standing in the hot sun in the morning and in the late
evening I still found her standing. But unlike me, she continued to look
gorgeous even at the end of the day : ) -Bhavana Nissima Upadhyaya
(The author is program director at SSF Global Foudation in Chennai, in the state of Tamil Nadu in India. She is a former communications instructor in the Research Service Learning Program at the University of New Mexico)
1 comment:
..."and eats at a common eatery with others like her."
What are others like her? What does she do all week in the town away from home? Is she a religious or social worker?
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