Kolkattans love their vegetables. Every morning scores of vendors arrive at the city’s various markets from the suburbs with their wares, sell them by noon, and go back home by late afternoon. It’s the routine they follow every single day except during heavy monsoon when communication becomes difficult.
Incidentally, when the large retail stores of the likes of Reliance and Wal-Mart hit the city, it will be the roadside vegetable sellers who will be hurt the most.
In this picture, taken some months back, the lady-seller is about to start day’s business. She is better than an average vegetable seller on the street, and that can be gauged from the array of vegetables she has for sale.
It helps that the adjoining districts produce good amount of vegetables throughout the year, which means the city can enjoy steady supply of fresh vegetables all the time. No wonder, Bengalis are known to eat anything that grows on ground. More on that later.
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