Thursday, May 06, 2010
Life in a indian Village - Wax Musuem
Got this pics in a mail from friend Anand.Its a wax museum in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India.It shows various aspects of a typical Indian village life.Check my comments on each pic.This is typically useful for non-Indians who are on visit to India.Once when i was on sightseeing in kerala, at the airport i met a german couple.On talking got to know that they had driven on bike all the way from Mumbai to Kerala and had followed a route from kokan region.Now that is a daring act considering the risk for a foreigner to roam in Indian countryside. I wondered what they liked about India.They said "the village life is so ancient.People still use bullocks and the farming is still done the way it was done thousands of years ago .We don't see this things in Europe". Indeed our bullock based farming, Navari saree , dhoti and overall village life is much same as the way it was in the days of Mohenjo daro harrapa times.Its only after the industrial revolution that modern era has set in and change is triggered to sell products.Before that life was much more constant and very little changed.Change is not always , all the time constant..sometimes its very slow ..sometimes its very fast.Let me know how you find the pics in comments.
PS:link to museum http://www.siddhagirimuseum.org/
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sure.. farming methods might be ancient... we can blame the system if we want... but even then is it something to be ashamed of??? No.... but then why take a city dwellers opinion :)
ReplyDeleteBut in Europe too... even if they have advacned machinary,,, their farming capabilites r limited..... if nto mistaken.....
i am not critical of farming methods..nothingh to be ashamed of it..in fact i am proud of it coz its most environment friendly...only thingh i wanted to point out that when city dwellers say change is constant and all , i wanted to point out that change is not constant in all cases ...some things dont change for centuries ..only industrial revolution has made change fast and constant to sell more products.....
ReplyDeleteNice article kapil...i liked the lucidity of thoughts and simplicity of words...i completely agree that a lot of things followed in our hinterlands maybe ancient but certainly is environment friendly...be it using banana leaf instead of aluminium foil, clay pots / steel glasses instead of plastic/ thermacoal glasses, eating with our fingers vis-a-vis using an army of cutlery, bucket bath instead of showers or even using water instead of tissue to clean our derriers...it is high time we stopped being ashamed of our practices and embrace them whole heartedly because most them are thought through and are an effective means of conservation.
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