Sunday, 21 January 2024

Rural India - Happiness

When did you last visit a village in India? In any part or state of India ?

What was your experience and observations?

Were the villagers happy and contented?

Ghumakkad says 'Rural India is real happiness'.

While visiting the Pench Tiger Reserve in southern MP, we walked around the villages nearby. Although the economic levels may be low, yet the villagers, children, cattle and cleanliness were all admirable. There was no litter on the village lanes unlike the city streets and roads. Pench has plenty of resorts to cater for the tourists. All these resorts are clean and dispose off their garbage in a responsible manner. The village panchayat (lowest governing body in rural India) ensures cleanliness. A village panchayat has constructed a link road around a lake which is now a tourist attraction. This village panchayat gets it's revenue from all the resorts located around Pench Tiger Reserve. Construction of the link road generated employment for local population. See the pictures below.






See the short video below of the children enjoying playing and learning together.













Here is a short video panorama of Kohka lake. Being cloudy morning, the video is not as sharp.


We are sharing below our earlier stories on rural India and rural wisdom observed by us from time to time.

Bodo Village- Living With Nature - The picture story shows village huts and folk dance of a village in Asom (aka Assam)

Rural Jugaad - Shows how a sugarcane juice vendor on the street improvises!

Innovation and Rural Wisdom - This picture story brings you examples of rural wisdom in constructing the village huts using local material. It also chronicles an innovation to make the train journey for babies and their parents comfortable.

Kudos to our rural folk who preserve the environment successfully. May their tribe increase and prosper.

Thanks for browsing. Do share your experiences of rural India. Hope you find rural India a happier place as Ghumakkad does!

    - Harsh-the Ghumakkad/ Pench, Madhya Pradesh India/ 21st Jan 2024

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13 comments:

  1. Anonymous21 January 2024 at 15:34

    Seems that village folks are more disciplined and environment conscious than the city folks. Innovative jugad process. Thanks for sharing it
    Capt P K Jindal

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  2. Anonymous21 January 2024 at 15:46

    Thanks sharing Sir.Reminded me of my childhood.

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  3. Sharad Kumar21 January 2024 at 15:56

    Nice to see a village scene which is simple and clean. Children are enjoying playing. Unfortunately I grew up in Calcutta but even there and then in 1950s and 60s, the life was much simpler and I may add happier too. Thanks for sharing.

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  4. Anonymous21 January 2024 at 20:51

    Did you see any tigers

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  5. Sangeeta21 January 2024 at 22:34

    Thank you for sharing.
    It looks so beautiful and peaceful.

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  6. Peter de Padua30 January 2024 at 16:33

    Truly tranquil!.Thanks sir for the interesting snaps and short story.Regards.

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  7. Sudhir Moorti19 March 2024 at 13:07

    Excellent account of your travels, as always very exciting to read

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