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Quote by Madhu Menon, Indira Nityanandan, Priya Narayan, Kalpana Ramrakhyani, Tulika Saha, Kusum Chopra, Anu

“Have you observed the journey of a water droplet that lands on a large leaf? The way it traverses the streets of the newly discovered city, the intricately designed pathways, sometimes getting lost in the narrow alleys and then finding the main street again. When it reaches the tip of the leaf, it tries to cling on to that threshold for a little extra time, unwilling to part.”

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