I met Swati on our field trip during my internship with Naari NGO. Dark but pale, in fact a little ghostly grey, with her bluish green veins visible on forehead and down the neck, Swati was about my age but in a wheelchair. It was in the year 2015 and our task was to spread awareness in this remote village in the Sundarbans about maternal malnutrition, early pregnancy, and anaemia. We had two doctors in our team to carry on with the check-ups and blood tests. Us, sociology honours students of 2 nd year, Lady Brabourne College, Kolkata were to make house visits, make conversations, explain the issues through storytelling in casual conversational style and hold a street play. Our college wasn’t organising this one, few of us, hungry young souls hunting down internship experience certificates voluntarily signed up for this during the one week pleasant winter break with an NGO, that our classmate,   Piyali had links with. We had extensively prepared for the trip with handmade plac...