He stays as Mahim but walks to Bandra carrying this sack of gram peanuts known as Seng Chana and he sells it in the Bandra Bazar to hungry hawkers for Rs 5 a packet and he is always smiling , he does get tired but he does not show it ,,
Late in the evening after 7 pm I see him trudging back to Mahim..And he is a Hindu also colloquially called Bhaiyyas he hails from Uttar Pradesh a state that did nothing for infrastructure or creating jobs hope . even today hordes of these North Indians come to Mumbai to try their Luck mostly doing jobs that the son of the soil Marathi Manoos may not do ,and they keep Mumbai moving with their hard earned contribution , they hold the menial jobs as Dhobis , vegetable sellers once they were Milk man but than the Nagoris beat them to it ,, they are bhangarwalas buying your junk and recycling it , they sell fish moving from area to area house to house and they take special orders on mobile phone .. they sell Hapus at signals , they are caterers working out of the slums they were the first tiffin service guys working from Bhatiarkhans serving cheap food to workers in factories embroidery tailoring units ,, they are embroiders tailors , they work as masseurs at Mumbadevi and the list is long theu work as Pandits priests .. and I could go on ,, they started bakeries , milk dairies and most of the guys breaking cars .. doing business out there are mostly Muslim North Indians ,, and in this lot you get Arabic teachers ..The MTNL linesmen of yore were mostly Bhaiiyyas .taxidriver , rickshadrivers are also North Indian migrants from Uttar Pradesh.
And I like this man the moment he sees me he cleans the seng and puts some in my palm.. for taste and I buy it from my grandkids ,,
