"Aman chased by a tiger climbs up a tree." "The branch he is hanging on bends dangerously over a dried-up well." "A pair of mice gnaw the branch." "Below, at the bottom of the well he sees a mass of writhing snakes." "On the wall of the well a blade of grass grows on its tip a drop of honey." "He licks the honey." "This happens in a dream world that repeats itself a thousand times." "This happens in the only world we have." "She can be in the competition." " But it's not for girls." "One girl with all the boys is impossible." "No problem." "It's the martial arts that count." "The competition won't be fair." "Boys will do better, jumping and kicking." "Don't see it that way." "Avoid those things." "Items for girls can be done separately." "They can do things like the Kaladukkal movement." "Let them take part." "Write to them that more girls should participate." "Ask other girls to come." "I'm going." " I'll come with you." "By scooter." " No, I'll go by myself." "Isn't the Dance Festival on now?" "Will Jothi take part?" "Computer programmers make the programs." "Their job is done by computer." "The systems analyst works for them and their users." "Her husband works in computers." "Later on he dies." "Her husband?" " Yes, that girl's husband." "How is the transistor project?" "Did we develop that program?" "The testing will be over next week." "And when do we deliver?" "Move your eyebrows." "Keep your hands steady." "Bend your palms." "Move your neck." "Now there's wind." "Hear it, hear it." "It is piercing you." "Jothi, move a little more." "Let the pride show." "Sway like an elephant." "Move like water." "Come closer." "Bindhu, where is your ear?" "Make it look like an elephant." "What are you learning?" " English." "Say it by heart." "What is the promise of a glowing day?" "It seeks to..." "The bloom before the roses fade away." "Why do the lovely flowers..." "Look at the knots in your hair !" "You should brush out the knots every morning." "No oil in your hair." "In the year 102 he marched against Chittu once more with a great army of Afghans and Turks." "It came on the atoll as a thick black thunder cloud rolls over the sky and burst like a storm over Chittu." "Working?" " Yes, I'm working." "How are you?" " Could be better." "And Valiamma?" " Valiamma died." "It was hard." "Who looks after the house now?" " I do." "It is difficult." "But there are no debts." "Everything has been paid for." "Move over." "Who is this coir for?" " For someone nearby." "I want some coir." "If you pay a good price." "I don't have enough money now." "Give me whatever you have." "We must pay the workers and buy rice." "Give me 200 rupees in advance." "I'll make ten bundles and then you pay me." "All right." "We just started working again after the Onam Festival." "We must pay our workers." "Please mark my savings." "The rest will come later." "It is just after Onam." "Rich people like you shouldn't bother us." "How about this coir?" " I'll buy it." "We need 200 rupees." "We have to pay the workers and we have to buy rice." "So we need 200 rupees." " I'll pay." "They make two bundles a day." "We have to pay them." "We need it now." "This afternoon." "Before 3 o'clock." "Then we can pay the workers." "How much do you want now?" " Give me 200 rupees in advance." "Here's 200 rupees." "The rest will come later." "The workers have to be paid." "The shop won't give us credit." "Shall I give this to the workers?" "I'll pay the rest upon delivery." "Shall I go?" "Is the ceremony today?" " Yes, for the first school day." "You get a lot of money today?" " Only very little." "The villagers have a difficult time." "With 5 rupees a child, how much do you get?" "Not everyone pays." " Not everyone?" "Why do you ask all this?" "Give me the notebook." "Don't you get 100 rupees today?" " People give whatever they can." "20 rupees." "Shall I go?" " Go." "Everyone write 'Hari'." "Now write 'Sree'." "Give me the money, Rajappan." "Let me finish this one." "Do you have enough work?" " Not enough." "Not enough demand for beedies?" " Now you get beedies in packages made by companies." "Aren't they cooperatives?" " It affected our market." "So sometimes there is no work." "Why don't you also work on a cooperative basis?" "We are not organized." "I work at home give the beedies to the merchant and accept whatever he gives." "Is there no welfare?" " There's nothing." "They just promise to get our vote." "The central government...." "Shouldn't they take care of it?" "They don't have time for us now." "You know what's happening in Punjab?" "What is it?" " Divide and rule." "The politicians divide the people according to caste and religion." "Did you write it down?" "Two rupees." "I give you two rupees every week not eating and not drinking tea." "You lent me 50 rupees to buy tobacco." "It is a debt." "No problem, you pay back with your savings." "You'll give me back the difference." " Yes, I'll give it to you." "You'll need it next year." " Yes, when my children go to school." "Let me get back to work." "Can you survive with this work?" "I told you, we are eight people." "I have four children and my wife my father, my mother, that's my family." "Shall I go?" "The money." "How much work is there on the sea wall?" " Two, three more months." "If the sea takes the stones, we have more work." "Shall I go?" "Bring the rice." "Samban!" "What is it?" " I came for the money." "The show is starting." "Come back later." "I'll come back tomorrow." "Here is 150 rupees." "In two months you have to give back 160 rupees." "Give me maybe two more weeks." " No problem." "She came as a young woman, radiant." "Spurring on everything alive to change." "Now it is time for people to light the fire, Agni." "She has made light driving out the dark." "She has arisen in her full dimension turning to everyone." "The colour of gold and beautiful she beams the mother of cows the bearer of days." "Thus Ushas, Dawn, appeared." "Adorned with sunbeams and bearing lovely gifts she spreads herself across the globe." "They harness the red sun horse." "The first morning light shines." "They harness the proud shining horses of Indra." "They give direction to him who is without direction." "Form to him who is without form." "Lift your hand, raise your eyes." "Keep it like that." "The arrow, oh Lord that you will shoot at Bali's heart." "Move your eyelids." "Focus on the middle where the lamp should be." "Woe!" "Alas!" "Oh Bali, greatest of monkeys..." "You used to walk like an elephant." "And your arms were like the trunks of elephants." "My heart breaks when I now see those arms lying in the dust with their shoulder rings shattered." "Enough sadness." "No more weeping." "Such is the law of the world." "I see the Ganges and the other sacred rivers." "Divine damsels, like Urvashi approach me." "Here is the chariot drawn by a thousand divine swans sent by Kala the god of death to transport me to the heaven of heroes." "Let it be." "I am ready." "A man chased by a tiger climbs up a tree." "The branch he is hanging on bends dangerously over a dried-up well." "A pair of mice gnaw the branch." "Below, at the bottom of the well he sees a mass of writhing snakes." "On the wall of the well a blade of grass grows on its tip a drop of honey." "He licks the honey." "This happens in the only world we have." "And I am there and see it, as if in a dream." "Anil!" "Bring the pail." "The water is not clear." "There's not much water in the well." "Don't waste it." "You understand?" "We haven't had much rain, so water is scarce." "We have to survive on this water."