शनिवार, 17 अक्तूबर 2009

Where The Work Is Worship


Till the length and breadth of your visual modality, you will find only greeneries here. The more you step-up the range of your sight the more would you be able to see the herbaceous greeneries. Focus more upon those fields of herbs, and if you find female workers putting her sweat to make those herbs sweet, you can assure yourself that you are in Chattisgadh, one of the beautiful states of India.

Chattisgadh, a state where economy is being driven by rice. And the best part is that, people of this place actually know this strength. This is evidential from the fact that people here grow three crops of paddy a year.

But that is not all. I have observed a kind of wont here in the ladies workers of paddy field. While starting their work in the field, they cover their head with a cloth. Wow, what a tradition, if it is. This really has beguiled me a lot. When I asked some of the workers of a paddy field about this tradition of covering their head before entering into the field, they said that they really don’t have observed it and covering head is not a tradition but a habit. They never have been taught about it neither they are teaching this to their children. It just followed.

A very rare phenomenon. Once a tradition becomes integral part of the life, it no more remains as a tradition. It rather becomes a habit or life style. And these ladies of Chattisgarh, just by showing this gesture, prove that for them working in paddy field is not just a work for earning some penny but is rather a worship.
Thanks ladies for teaching me this very important lesson of life.

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