Summary:
As the alarm clock buzzed, 70-year-old Sarojini Amma was already awake. Without wasting time, she finished her morning chores before proceeding to the kitchen to prepare breakfast and lunch for about 20 people. For the past four years, Sarojini Amma has been making breakfast, lunch and dinner for people in the neighbourhood- all to make ends meet. By 7am, Sarojini Amma is ready with the packed tiffin boxes. While weekly breakfast includes puttu, idiyappam, upma, kozhukatta and vellappam, the lunch is usually rice with two curries, buttermilk and pappad..