Vendors in busy locals

Challenges of life situations 

Their speedy and hurriedly selling talent

Close observations for people as well

 

At fair price with little profit,

A usual timely sight

Moving slowly along short halts,

To make a living for the family

 

Angrezi madam, want pin?

Thirty rupees five pins

Keeping the energy alive till last,

Moves the oversized commodities to the next train

 

Mentally prepared to climb in at 9,

Missing a day is like sleeping hungry,

Sweat drops,

odor arrives

 

This one buys bindis, that one sells samosas

But miserable stories each face tell

Clamor quietens as dark comes near

Contented or not each face tell

 

Naigoan to churchgate 

Filling in from Dadar 

Multi-lingual, multi-religious 

A place of uncertain vendors

 

Local train jhum jham

‘Madam chutta nikalo aage jana hai’

Dash, push, pull or snub

Taking money as assurity