I was just walking along the street when I saw these women talking, taking a break from their labor in the afternoon. The bright colours of their clothes, the lines on their weather-worn faces and their relaxed posture while they rested after a hard days work symbolised for me the beauty, the endurance and the resilience of the women of the Himalyan foothills in Uttarakhand.
- Andy Francis
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