This salesman on a house to house sale of wall brooms hails form Bihar. He lives in a village close by and sets out in the morning to sell his products. On three days he makes them and spends the three days on his feet hoping to sell them!
I found him cheerful and enterprising. His family lives in north Bihar and he visits them every three months. When the sale is not good he goes to work in farm. He supports his five member family by this merchandise.
There are about two hundred from Bihar who are known to him who live and work in different construction sites or farm !
The challenge of making livelihood is really hard on some!
Listening to him made me feel that he lives with a mission! The ordeals and demands of such a unsettled living seem to have made him agile and determined!
There are lesser privileged people in the human family!
M.C.Mathew (text and photo)
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