Same time three years back, I should have been following up some work in Tupni/Padli/Mojap or something like that. These are some villages of Okhamandal, Jamanagar district, Gujarat. As an MT (Management Trainee) with Tata Chemicals, I was expected to do a rural stint for 2 months. It was my first real experience of the Bharat and enjoy
ed every moment of it. Especially the exposure visit with about 50 Gujarati villagers to Bhuj, conducting some gram sabha meeting, lots of masala tea, sensitising the little chaps in the locals schools about sanitation and personal hygiene, long drives in a very old jeep with the super-driver Rambhai, stay at Tupni - that was the Dussera time too!, clicking some good and many not-so-good snaps, eating groundnuts - straight from under the ground, taking the Tupni Sarpanch's bull for a walk - was really scared, singing "Athaanda Idhaanda Arunachalam naanthaanda..." for the villagers, doing some PRA work etc.
In another three hours' I'm supposed to get going for the week-long village visit of the 81st Foundation Course, LBSNAA. This time I'm going to a village in Lalitpur,UP. But I feel, over the last three years, my skill-level when it comes to doing things like this - has in fact gone down! Will be happy if this feeling remains still a feeling even after this village visit; and not a reality.
ed every moment of it. Especially the exposure visit with about 50 Gujarati villagers to Bhuj, conducting some gram sabha meeting, lots of masala tea, sensitising the little chaps in the locals schools about sanitation and personal hygiene, long drives in a very old jeep with the super-driver Rambhai, stay at Tupni - that was the Dussera time too!, clicking some good and many not-so-good snaps, eating groundnuts - straight from under the ground, taking the Tupni Sarpanch's bull for a walk - was really scared, singing "Athaanda Idhaanda Arunachalam naanthaanda..." for the villagers, doing some PRA work etc.In another three hours' I'm supposed to get going for the week-long village visit of the 81st Foundation Course, LBSNAA. This time I'm going to a village in Lalitpur,UP. But I feel, over the last three years, my skill-level when it comes to doing things like this - has in fact gone down! Will be happy if this feeling remains still a feeling even after this village visit; and not a reality.
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