Amudha

Amudha, 37, widow, mother of 3- two of whom committed suicide, is a fruit seller in Chennai. She looks at me fondly and says, my daughter, she looked just like you. Both of us are tearing up. 
Hailing from Villupuram, she has never studied, never seen the walls of a school and her only aim in life was to be a good housewife. She still wears her 'thaali' to work. 
She's educating her only child now, with the meager money she makes by selling small pomegranates and oranges. Travelling everyday in the sun just to make sure that her daughter doesn't ever face the plight that she has. She fills the space of the mother, father and siblings for her little girl. 
She hopes that her daughter will study hard and can someday buy the market where she buys her fruits from. She wouldn't mind a bigger shop as well, she says.