Renuka

Wandering devotee.

She sat outside the Hanuman temple in Miramar, Panjim – poised, composed – beside her small shrine of brass deities ringed with marigolds and jasmine. A visitor from the Yellama temple in Saundatti, Karnataka, she seemed entirely at home on the pavement. I had only my iPhone with me, but the scene wouldn’t let me walk past. It returns to me today, on Hanuman Jayanti.