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Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR’s international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world.<\/em><\/p>\n

In the one-horse town of Marikavalasa in India’s eastern coastal state of Andhra Pradesh, I spent an afternoon interviewing working women on the main street. Patterns emerged: The women, clad in neat saris, sat before tidy stalls made of rescued plywood and propped up by a few bricks.<\/p>\n

The women would agree to chat, or be interviewed, but they’d excuse themselves briskly. There was a trade to be done, an eggplant to sell, colorful bangles, a devotional lamp.<\/p>\n