Travelling helps you discover people of extraordinary courage and opens your mind
She must have been 80 or 90 years old. At a time when most people lead retired lives or live in old age homes, she sat in her shop, peering carefully through her glasses as she worked on a hand-operated sewing machine. I stand there looking at her, my mind working on stories of her life. What mattered was that she was here, earning her living. Just looking at her I find courage to keep doing whatever I am doing. Photograph taken in a bazaar in Himachal Pradesh.
