I feel extremely humbled to write this biography.Its about Laxmi. She lives in Karaikudi, Tamil nadu. Recently I happened to get posted in Karaikudi and it was when I met her in the guest house where she works as a caretaker. She spoke hindi effortlessly which drew my (as I being a North Indian) attention to her life and that is how I got to know more about her life story. Later on I discovered she had spent quite sometime in Mumbai.
Laxmi is about to cross her middle ages and has three daughters. Eldest daughter scored 450 out of 500 in the 10th Board Exams and is an extremely brilliant student and is studying in a good poly-technique institute. The second daughter is in her 10th Class and the youngest one is in 6th standard.
Why I am writing this story is because of the facts I am going to tell now. Laxmi`s husband abandoned her 10 years back when her daughters were still very young. She went helpless. She didn’t have any source of livelihood or support to run her family. It was a cruel phase in her life. She could have committed suicide or might have very well succumbed to the bad fortune in any form. But she never did so. Since then she had been working as maid servant, guest house attendant and many other things and had been able to somehow manage and shape her daughters` life and provide quality education to them. She starved at nights but ensured food to her daughters. She is constantly striving to shape up the future of her three young daughters.Perhaps she doesn’t want them to feel what she had experienced being a dependant woman 10 years back.
She fought life with courage and still she is fighting like a Hero which is incomparable. Her life is an inspiration to millions of people who think their little problem is the biggest problem in this world.
Certainly, she is a real time iron lady. I personally salute her spirit. May her daughters achieve the best of everything and take care of their mother. I am sure they definitely will, because the drive towards their aspirations is a lady who can be an inspiration to anyone on this earth. Salute to her indomitable spirit and womanhood!
