These “small sellers” are the most common sight on any Indian street. They are the street vendors, who take up a corner of their own on any street around the city and put up their small shop, from which they earn their livelihood. They aren’t rich and obviously do not earn enough to put up a real shop, but these poor vendors have to face a lot of difficulty from the government. This difficulty being that, people are not allowed to put up a shop anywhere and everywhere they want to, yet the only option that the vendors have is to see a place where lot of people pass through everyday. And if that place isn’t permitted by the government, then the police come and chase them away or even at times, take away all their selling items. Here are some such vendors who earn their living on the streets of Shillong, a small hill-station located in the north-eastern part of India, selling items varying from toys to vegetables to fruits, local products, flowers, fast-food snacks, cigarettes, chips, chocolates, or almost anything imaginable.
“A nation of shopkeepers are very seldom so disinterested.”
~ Samuel Adams
“You can never cross the ocean
unless you have the courage
to lose sight of the shore.”
~ Christopher Columbus
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare,
it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”
~ Seneca
“If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions, great is our sin.”
~ Charles Darwin
“Society comprises two classes: those who have
more food than appetite, and those who
have more appetite than food.”
~ Sébastien-Roch Nicholas de Chamfort (Maximes)
“Empty pockets never held anyone back.
Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.”
~ Norman Vincent Peale
“Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn’t commit.”
~ Eli Khamarov (Lives of the Cognoscenti)
“Love and business and family and religion
and art and patriotism
are nothing but shadows
of words when a man’s starving.”
~ O. Henry (Heart Of The West)