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Breakfast was poha —flattened rice tempered with mustard seeds, curry leaves, and peanuts. They ate on banana leaves (a biodegradable plate Kavya would later compost in the backyard) while sitting cross-legged on the floor. Meera had read somewhere that eating while sitting on the ground improved digestion. But the real reason was older than science: it kept you humble. No one sits on a throne to eat in India.

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Kavya fetched a fresh yellow root from the brass kalash (sacred pot). She watched her mother grind it on a flat black stone with a few drops of water. The paste that emerged was the color of sunfire. Meera dabbed a dot on Kavya’s forehead and one on her own. “For the third eye,” she whispered. “To see clearly.” Breakfast was poha —flattened rice tempered with mustard