Kumari Bambasara Handu Da Guide

Bambasara — the crossing, not just of streets but of chances, where a boy with a broken cartwheel asked for water and you gave him a whole monsoon.

Kumari, do your fingers still trace that air — the one heavy with jasmine and diesel smoke, the one we named handu da because no other word would hold it? kumari bambasara handu da

Kumari Bambasara handu da — do you remember that road, maiden, where the dust smelled of rain and the tamarind trees bent low like old women sharing secrets? Bambasara — the crossing, not just of streets