Every morning Narmadaben Patel wakes up at 6am and meticulously cuts 2-3 kgs of vegetables. She then proceeds to make enough vegetable sabzi, dal and rice to feed a small army. After she is done, she proceeds pack everything neatly in containers and load it into a van and deliver food to patients and their relatives at Sayaji Hospital who can’t afford basic necessities like food. Narmadaben, aged 83, has been running this annashetra since the last quarter of the century. It all started in the year 1990 when Narmadaben and her husband Ramdas Bhagat started an initiative to provide food to people for free. Their inclination towards charity came from their devotion to their religion, Narmadaben tells us. “My husb

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