The amaranthus seller

 VEGETABLE VENDOR (Oil on canvas ).

Our mornings were associated with long calls of a vegetable vendor, selling amaranthus leaves locally known as “cheera”. She like many other vendors was a Tamil lady . She used to come early in the morning, bare footed, neatly dressed in a silk sari, with jasmine flowers tucked into her long pleated hair. Rather than the twinkle of her nose ring, the sadness in her eyes still haunts me.

oil paintings