Garbage picker, India     1993



    I was born when the sun becomes weak
    And slowly becomes extinct
    In the embrace of night.
    I was born on the footpath
    In a rag.

Excerpted from V.S. Naipul, India: A Million Mutinies Now,
attributed to Namdeo.



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