This, quintessentially, is an Indian woman pose. In my mother's memory today, we have an award,Shanti Priyadarshee Rachna Puraskar, for exemplary work in literature and journalism. The award is distributed bi-annually at district level ceremony, and the nomination is open for anybody related to Nalanda by birth or by work.
She served as a headmistress (hence as a manager, an accountant and so on) in a government junior school.  Beside being a very resourceful teacher, she was a workaholic by nature, so it suited her fine. She had entrepreneurial temperament and an astute awareness about the surroundings. She had no dearth of projects, be it in the school, at home, garden or about a good buy and sell in the local market.  From idol sculpturing for the Saraswati Puja at school to illustrating some graceful dance poses to kids, from leading us how to improvise on an unintended blob of paint to making of crafts -- She was very hands on while teaching. It was a bit ironic that her post-graduation book had to do a lot with names like Aflatoon (Plato), Arastu (Aristotle), Sukrat (Socrates), Sikandar (Alexander) etc. ; they were all so Greek to me.
For the near ones, she was the doctor in house. Her naturopathic treatments although, was hard to appreciate at times.  Particularly when it includes you being the subject wrapped in mud under Indian sun :).  On other times it was inspiring too;  one of my cousin once needed an emergency treatment in a remote place, and she found an herbal plant that actually was effective for that instance.  I used to be her compounder for homeopathic (wonder.. why I like the spirit of vodka :) and biochemic medicines and had picked a lot from those bulky materia-madicas through osmosis. I wish, I could have as well picked on her culinary experties to make almost any leaf, root, shoot..  exquisitely delicious.