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LIFE IN A FORGOTTEN WORLD

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  One day I was reading an article which mentioned that if you want to know the ground reality or a glimpse of India visit a village.  I thought, what a utopian sentence it is. That’s not at all true!   But as soon as I visited a village my perspective changed.   A few months back, I visited my grandma's home to spend a week over there and experience a life other than my monotonous eat, sleep, study, repeat one. Also to experience the ground reality.   As soon as I reached her place …. I observed that everything happened on a fixed time, the life was quite disciplined there.   All the women of the house used to wake up around four o'clock in the morning. Then they used to visit a nearby handpump and get drinking water for the entire day (after waiting in a long line). Then they came back finished the daily chores, prepared meals for their husbands and kids. Then packed some food for their husbands. After that, they cleaned the buffaloes and collected some milk. Then visited the