Kamalamma lives alone in a single rented room in Sanjaynagar. Our volunteer Arvind visits every Tuesday on his way to work with her medicines and the newspaper.
Two years in, he knows how she takes her coffee and she knows the names of everyone on his team.
“He is late only when it rains. Then he brings jalebi.”— Kamalamma, 81
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