Subject: Fwd: Re:
Date: 	Fri, 16 Feb 2001 11:05:34 -0500


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>Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 07:12:09 -0800 (PST)
>From: "annapurna m." <annapurnam-AT-yahoo.com>
>Subject: Re:
>To: radhika gajjala <radhika-AT-cyberdiva.org>
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>lifting weights
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>from the slum across the road
>she asked me if she could work for me
>washing clothes and cleaning house
>'is she trustworthy' i asked sathyamma
>who had brought her
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>shes newly from the village
>not had time to learn city tricks
>sathyamma is grimly amused
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>      [ "some of the deaths are violent"
>       i heard, sitting in far off spaces
>       nodding in psuedo understanding of the
>academic framework
>       "the young girls' bodies are found with
>parts chewed off..killed by their own menfolk"
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>but the grainy pictures spoke for
>themselves..from half dug up graves
>young mexican women..transnational labour in
>border towns]
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>her husband is beating her
>sathyamma told me
>she is pregnant now seven years after
>he had his 'operation'
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>can you take me to a doctor
>i wont have this child
>the woman says softly
>her husband is a good enough fellow
>sathyamma explains
>but just now she is earning and he isnt
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>but what if it happens again
>i ask the silent woman
>my tones all reason and logic
>he will have found something to do..
>next time he wont doubt me
>she says
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>already the knowledge of the city is seeping in
>but the backbone is all village
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>transnational labour
>in my own backyard....
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