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Every autumn, India celebrates Navratri, worshipping the goddess in her many forms – Durga, Kali, Lakshmi, Saraswati. We sing hymns to her power, we bow before her idols, and we perform Kanya Pujan, washing the feet of young girls in a symbolic act of reverence. Politicians and public figures remind us that women are “shakti,” the source of creation and strength.

And yet, when the nine nights of worship end, the goddess returns to her pedestal while real women step back into a world that has little room for reverence.

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