They came like a river down the road - women holding banners, and marching in line. The morning air reverberated with a slogan from Mumbai in the 1980s: ‘Hum bharat ki nari hain / Phool nahi, chingari hain (We are women of India /Not flowers, but flames)'. Pamela Philipose covers the annual meeting of the Nari Shakti Mahila Sangh in Balaghat, Jharkhand.