Sunday, 10 March 2013

A tribal village...


Demography – Barothi village is situated on the Highway NH-8. Maximum population of the village is Tribal. The main population of the village is tribal. Apart from that Kalal, Labana, Muslims , Brahmine, Rajput cast also inhibit in the village.

Livelihood Main occupation of the people living in the village is agriculture, there is a good diversity in the agriculture product like the plain areas but land holdings are very small. So it is mainly for family use. Main crops are corn, wheat, paddy, cotton etc. farming is mostly done by the tractors in the big fields and in small fields traditional way of farming is still in use. 

All the family members including the small children work in the field of cotton and paddy. People do migrate from here to work in the BT cotton fields of Gujrat. Housing pattern of the village seems like a plain where all the population lives in the center of the village. When we go away from the market toward the village we find the very same scattered houses, located on the high place. Situation of the houses is fine. They are made of stone and bricks and some houses are made in traditional way.

 Language spoken in the village is very same of other villages of Bicchiwara. People speak Hndi , Vagadi and they can understand Gujraati too because most of the people have direct connection with Gujrat in terms of relationship marriages do take place from that place, people go for job and business purpose to Gujrat. Food habits are normal people like to have roti-sabji and they do like maze and rise too.

Drinking wine is very accepted and normal thing for the village people. During the festival season it reach on its peek as people come from different location after job, they have money and they spend it openly on such things. Wine is made from the flower of Mahua in this location.             
                                                 
Fair and Mela are the integral part of the tribal culture and all the community do participate on such occasion.

Saturday, 16 February 2013

What education is all about ?


When we talk of education there comes a school in our mind but education is not all about schooling. Education means understanding life. This can be done in a room being aloof from the real life. This can be done without formal education.

There is a tussle among educationist to define education and the process of sharing knowledge, experience and competency development. In India school are being seen as a place where knowledge is being shared and teachers are the processor of knowledge.

Students are the future successor and they need to go to school to learn basic know how of reading and writing and dealing with the art of communication, playing with language, math and enjoying the company of the same age group and learning many habits from peers.