“Can we stop for a short visit to a friend, here at the petrol station?” the nun who sits besides me in the car is asking. We are on the way from Pollachi to Valparai in the Nilgiris mountains in South India. After a few minutes the car stops. A friendly, maybe 40 years old…
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Lakshmi, a woman who wants to discover the world and beautiful Valparai
Lakshmi is eighteen. She’ s still at school. Another year, then she wants to go to university – if possible at Coimbatore, a four hours trip from here. When I meet her the first time in Villoni, a very small and remote village in the surroundings of Valparai in the West Ghat mountains, a very…