[This piece was originally posted on my facebook (https://www.facebook.com/bhavana.upadhyaya) in July 2012. Subsequently, my New Mexican friend Carlos Navarro published it in his blog http://breadnm.blogspot.in/2012/07/muthulakshmi.html. Do visit his blog for excellent articles on issues of hunger and food across the world. Reposting here for Indian audiences]
This is Muthulakshmi. She lives in a village 10 kms away. She visits her home once a week. Rest of the days she sleeps on the porch of a nearby bank, freshens up and washes her clothes at a resthouse for Rs10/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:)
From my 2012 India travels, at Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu.
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