COVID-19 has plunged our country - like many others - in a?situation where survival has become a challenge for those who are underprivileged.?While the pandemic is killing people every day, the unavailability of resources has also led to the loss of so many lives.
The lives that are being saved are thanks to our frontline workers and people like?K Kamalathal.
K?Kamalathal?is a 80-year-old woman from Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, who is known to sell homemade idlis for Re 1 to the poor and needy.?Even at this age, she continues to work every day, waking up before the break of dawn to provide fresh fluffy idlis to her customers, most of who depend on her for their daily meals.
Doing this for the last 30 years, Kamalathal has never increased her prices because her motto is simple - she wants to help the poor and needy.
However, what's amazing is that even during a time like this when people's businesses are incurring huge losses, Kamalathal hasn't increased the price of her idlis even by a single paisa. According to an India Today report, the 80-year-old said, "The situation is a little difficult since Covid-19 started, but I am trying to provide idlis for Re 1 to the poor. I won't raise the rate but prices of ingredients are rising."
Disregarding profits and her own benefit, she is?taking the well-being of the underprivileged into consideration, Kamalathal is a saviour for the people around her, and that's exactly what heroes look like.