Tag: kindness
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Old by age, but young by willpower!
The story of an old lady entrepreneur The resolute old lady “entrepreneur” selling guavas On my afternoon stroll during lunch hours, I often see an old lady sitting under the hot sun in the open walkway area near the Patel Chowk metro station. In summers, she sold jaamun/Indian blackberry and today she was selling guavas/amrood/jaamphal.…
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Market economy and hyper-technology wiping out small joys of life- the missing human touch
While taking an afternoon stroll, I noticed a budhi amma selling jaamun in a small tokri at street-side in the scorching heat of summers. She was looking very frail and aged, still she was working hard under a hot burning sun to make the ends meet. I asked her “Amma, jaamun kitne me diye?” She…