This is Piedade, vegetable vendor from Nuvem, Goa who may know more about Colva then many residents because she walks street after street meeting every household and is thus also the informal news channel - she can tell you about newborns, marriages, deaths, whose traveling, just arrived and also which neighbors are upset with each other. Apart from this is the fact that most of her produce is home grown which she transports by bus and then walks with the heavy load on her head for several hours till it is all sold.

Despite the weight she carries both physically and emotionally it has not dampened her spirit and her smile