When popular fruit-seller Sekar of South Mada Street passed away some couple of months ago, his wife
Shanthi Sekar was not only in mourning but could not pull herself out of the darkness she saw around her.
She took her time and decided to comtinue the hawking business of her husband. At the space where Sekar ran his trade.
“Once I made up my mind I applied myself totally,” she said.
She opens her shop at 7 a.m. and it remains open past 9 p.m. A framed phot of her husband sits among the variety of fruits.
And one other act of remembrance – she too listens to the recorded music of old Tamil film classics which Sekar used to play on a mini-player fixed to the stall.
– By Baskar Seshadri
