“I am 43-years-old and have been selling bananas for the last 20 years. Life was good when I was a child. My father was a fruit merchant. In those days life was very simple. We made enough money to make our ends meet and lived life with no regrets. I was just not interested in studies. I barely completed class ten when I dropped out of school.

Then I had felt I could make more money in business. Off I went experimenting. I worked with my father, and later put up a stall selling clothes. But business went down south. By then, I had spent all my youthful years and realised my folly. But one cannot get back time that is lost. Then I started with the business of selling just bananas.

It’s a no risk job. With marriage you need a steady income, and I have two kids as well. To provide for them is a lot of hard work. I start my day by 7:30 in the morning, and after dropping my kids to college, I rush to the Sabzi Mandi in Kushaiguda where some of us stock our products. I load my push cart and walk to Nagaram, where for years now, I have stood in the same corner selling bananas. I am here till 10 p.m. after which I go . It’s midnight by the time my day ends. I walk back to the mandi, deposit my cart and later go home. Depending on the sales of the day, I either board a share auto or walk back home. Come what may, I want my children to finish their education and lead a better life. I have had enough of life on the footpath and I will never want my children to experience it.”

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