Showing posts with label village. Show all posts
Showing posts with label village. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Lumia Cow

After a long day, hell of driving on the outskirts of Vadodara, back home feels good.
Just a little outside Vadodara and a little inside those roads which take you towards villages, everything just changes.
Suddenly everything turns trustworthy, everyone so easy and direct to talk. You walk into a random house and ask for water or chaai and more than 90 percent of the time I bet you - the answer you will get is a YES.
Amazing it was.

Anyway, so when I was returning home and was about to open the door and I saw a cow. It was 12.30 am.
I presumed that she was lost and left behind the herd.Watchman had already closed the main doors so there was no chance she could get out.  I thought it will be taken care off by someone and I opened the lift and punched 4, floor for my home. There was continuous fight inside me which had already begun to whether go and help that cow or not. I opened the door of my home, kept all the stuff still thinking whether I should or shouldn't. Laziness was almost taking over when something inside me jaagofied and went down.
Went to the gate it was locked. Now ours is a freaking huge society, the biggest in Akota maybe. So went from watchman to watchman asking who has the keys to that particular door sitting on different crossroads inside the society.
Finally got the right guy, made him sit in the car. Opened the doors. Cow is out and immediately there were few other cows who I thinking were waiting for her outside started walking together towards her and then all of them together.

Thank you to the cow for letting me be of her service and do this good act which I would be dedicating it to my new phone I bought today.
Yes, (the show off moment) Nokia Lumia 820 it is.
LOL I know this post might not make any sense for those who might read it. ( I know many of you read it now considering so many reviews I am getting) but ya you know cow-good act-new things - good omen etc?? ;)
So ya! 

Friday, August 8, 2008

Seva Station- 2

.......Continued



Day 2: Got up early in the morning cleaned up the village with our broomsticks and even painted some of the dull walls of the village and the place beautiful.

We also visited the primary school of the village and became a part of the daily educational activity till noon.

Had general interaction with the villagers about the lifestyle and other things like modes of entertainment, livelihood etc. We have the facility of loudspeakers in the van of which we took complete advantage and danced with the kids of the village on the bollywood numbers. At night after dinner, we showed them “Lage Raho Munnabhai” on our Van Projector which all of them enjoyed very much as they don’t have multiplexes which is far off thing, they don’t even have a single theatre in their Taluka so it had to be a joyful experience for them.


Day 3: We organized a medical camp in the village and we served 180 patients and more. It was great to see active participation of a few volunteers who brought oldies on chairs, cots or just carrying them to the hospital from their houses.

When everyone was taking a small break in the afternoon we sat with the village youth and with them we initiated the youth movement in the village christening it YUVA Unstoppable Palasar and had the Yuva’s Anthem sung by Parth after a long time. Then we had a small gathering kind of with the village people in a village hall and then headed for tree plantation. We planted 200 Trees with the new YUVA volunteers. I had been seeing and listening about tree plantations on televisions from years but never understood the importance until I planted one!

There was a ‘Garba’ planned for the night where we danced with the villagers till late night as next day we were going to take a leave from there. They enthusiasm level in the villagers was worth appreciating.



Day 4: In the morning after the prayer we left from the village. It was like a ‘Bidaai’ of girl to her Sasural kinds….. Quite an emotional moment for everyone especially after some kids started crying and we had to stop the van for sometime and then continued our homeward journey.

On the way back to Ahmedabad, we went to Gandhi Ashram, Zilia, went to their school and college had interactions was fun meeting them and the discipline was indeed wonderful.

Then we had our lunch in a roadside restaurant “ Rose Garden”. Felt like we are eating Punjabi food after a very long time….

Post lunch we visited Mehsana’s Milk Dairy which is giant in Gujarat giving a turnover of 1482 crores and source of income for so many villages in and around Mehsana district.

We also had another tree plantation program in Mehsana which was becoming a bit tiring as we were traveling right from morning and then finally Ahmedabad………………


It was like God “Thank You” for such for giving an opportunity to help people whom we went to meet as unknowns and came back with a beautiful relationship of humanity and brotherhood.