Radha rose before sunrise to cook for her family and get ready to take the first bus out, praying that prime spot at the entrance of the Bazaar remains unoccupied. She calculated Rs3 as the break-even price for her goods that were purchased on borrowed money from a heartless loan shark. Profit meant ……. Not clothes or exotic things sold in the bazaar under shiny lights…. but food for a day or two. Her back throbbed in pain where her husband had battered her in his drunken stupor asking her for money …but she hurried on.
The prime spot was unoccupied. She thanked God for her good luck and put out a lemon in front of her make-shift stall to ward off the evil eye.
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The women who have inspired me are not the Indira Gandhi’s or Hillary Clinton’s of the world but these unassuming , uneducated , hard-working women who lift their families out of starvation and ruin amidst numerous challenges and who serve as the invisible backbone of many a country’s economy. The pictures below would say what I feel more eloquently than any words I can write:
Photos of beautiful hard-working women entrepreneurs from around the world:
India:
photo credit: www.telegraphindia.com
Photo credit: https://www.pinterest.com/janyjacob/beautiful-women-of-south-asia/
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/indias-invisible-workers/article4488407.ece#im-image-12
Peru:
Photo Credit – http://bicycletouringpro.com/blog/250-reasons-to-fall-in-love-with-peru/old-woman-640×426/
Vietnam:
Photo credit: http://www.amusingplanet.com/2011/10/street-food-vendors-from-around-world.html
Jerusalem:
Photo credit: http://menzelphoto.photoshelter.com/image/I00009SgPXnL.ssA
Mynamar:
Photo credit: https://freedommuzic.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/myanmar-friends-cptc2.jpg
Ethiopia:
Photo credit: http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/x/30056644street-vendor-harar-old-town-ethiop-30056644.jpg
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This 100+ word story is written in response to the 100 word photo challenge posted by Rochelle Wisoff-Field each week.
Click on the ‘blue frog’ below to read other amazing takes, that fellow Friday Fictioneers have, on the same photo prompt:
Roots & Water 
