THE UNSUNG HEROES IN OUR MIDST. THESE ARE MY “MASHUJAAS”

Sometimes inspiration doesn’t come from those who “have made it” really big in life, with bank accounts reading like phone numbers (if making lots of money is to be really counted as success at all);neither does it come from those who have climbed up the ladder of their careers, probably through not very straight methods. But real inspiration might come from the groceries woman who, in spite of having gone to bed at 11.00 pm, wakes up at 2.00 am in the morning, takes a bus to the city market to pick her merchandise and by 5.00 am she is back in the house.

Instead of going back to bed for a couple of hours, she starts preparing her children for school and by the time they leave for school, it is time to open her grocery where she has to stay the whole day selling her vegetables; the cycle…