i visited the village to see the decadal change of progress. i did my MSc in the year 1991 and selected two village for my study one the Aryanagar near to city and another one 25kilometers away from the Hisar City . so i did another round of survey in the year 2001, then 2011 these pics are from my third round. I found a vast difference regarding development of village
While tour to village
it was creativity in the air. The village is model village and named AryaNagar,
its original name is kurri (kurri in
Haryana is .an open store for household waste) village is famous for its sturdy
earthen pots. The dominated caste is kumhaar
( prajapati samaaj—the potters) their main traditional occupation is making earthen
pots( sorry the pics of potters were damaged and can't revive).
We sit with the
village potter to make beautiful terracotta (Kulhadies)pots and divaas.
I weaved some thread on Charkha with local womenfolk; make women to lit light
in mud plastered hara. We did a lot
of rural activities to make it a memorable experience, from –cooking, pounding
grain, grinding grains(ataa), making
ghee and buttermilk and tried balancing water tokani on our head like true Haryanvi womenfolk.
Really fond memories
come back to me from my childhood when I did them all.
Then we visited the
village “Harijan aanganwaadi” my daughter felt bad seeing the board of “Harijan
aanganwaadi” saying What it mean? Why harijan
aangan baadi it should be for all caste and creed …..any how the children in
aanganwadi were playing ethnicgames-gulee danda, Pethoo, Lattoo,
Kanche goli and others. We engaged ourselves in Gulel(sling) shooting, Hop
skotch or Kabbadi and Kushti(
wrestling bout local style) with their friends in the soft soil arena. I picked
up a colorful kite from a kid and let that talk to the blue skies-to give wings
to my imagination.
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| Swinging |
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swinging in the house
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