The phrase ‘many a circus feat’ refers to the Wada women walking with heavy pots of water on their heads, miles and miles, from a big canal. This indicates the strain, the anguish and the humiliation suffered by Dalits to fetch water for their daily needs. On the contrary, the phrase, ‘dances its way into the Pepsi man’s bottle’ refers to water being sold as a multinational market commodity. Here the phrase ‘dances its way’ shows the ease and the surreptitious ways in which ‘water’ is sold for a price when it is known all over the country that tens of thousands of poor people and Dalits even today, walk miles to fetch drinking water. For the Dalits and the poor, water is a necessity and ‘Pepsi’ is an item of luxury. This reflects how the poor become victims of discrimination.
