After her husband passed away, Lakshmi sold her modest village home in Alwar, Rajasthan, and moved to Delhi to live with her only daughter, Riya Mehra.
She carried one simple belief in her heart:
My daughter will look after me. I will look after my granddaughter. A family survives because everyone supports each other.
Each morning, she walked little Aarav to kindergarten.
Each afternoon, she cooked meals, scrubbed clothes, and kept the household running.
She never mentioned to Riya that the 20 million rupees she earned from selling her house were still untouched in her bank account, nor that her savings passbook was carefully wrapped and hidden inside her old cloth bundle.