The influx of foreign students in the early 1970s transmuted the lives of Kathakali artistes who had known until then only indigence. |
It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. |
Unsurprisingly, given the risk of arbitrary expropriation and extortion, the ordinary people responded by living in studied indigence. |
For every one rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes indigence of the many. |
While Lakshmi is the goddess of riches, her elder sister is the deity of poverty, indigence, odium, reproach and ignominy. |
But you have placed yourself in this predicament through bad policy, and your indigence keeps you in it. |