O Kasturi! Your song Captured me, Your smile -- Enraptured me. Who are they That defined your beauty But missed your dignity? Be strong forever Dear sister For you, your mother Your boys and others. NOTE: Kasturi is a friendly, 33-year old street vendor (like the lady in the picture) and gender violence survivor who sells leafyvegetables on a footpath in north Bangalore. Her joyous, pragmatic and hopeful demeanour during our brief chat while I bought corriander from herlast week, inspired the above words.

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