Salt, the basic ingredient of cooking is produced artificially in the salt evaporation ponds. The present portfolio presents daily life of salt farmers in one such salt evaporation pond located at Chinnaganjam, Andhra Pradesh, South India. The season of abundant production of salt is during the months of March-June when the sun is seen at its scorching best. Under the razing sun and piercing rays, people (both women and men) get to work in the evaporation ponds. Working from the break of first light of the day, they toil on the ponds to gather salt. Like in agriculture, salt farming too involves small and medium farmers with the rare presence of capitalist farmers. The default indication is that these farmers have to dispose their produce immediately at the existing market price controlled by syndicates of merchants. In the process, many times they lose and sometimes they gain. Succinctly put, their lives often times operate between gathering of grain and hopes on gain. Salt adds life to cooking. Even a small amount of salt produces great taste. Sometimes, a very small amount of salt produces astonishing historical results. A pinch of salt in the hands of Mahatma Gandhi produced the last punch to the British colonial power (1930- 1947). In case of India, salt not only makes taste, but makes freedom too.