Hi all,
One fine day I went to Pragati Maidan for some Exhibition.It was a wonderful day & after reaching there I took a bus from gate no 7 for respective hall. A kid standing just behind me asked his mother that "Mom, which plant is that"? pointing to a big poster of a plant outside. His mother replied candidly," Beta its Wheat from which we get flour for Chapattis". A strange feeling crept across my mind that today's kids don't enjoy the luxury of even live darshan of a basic wheat plant. I thought about our old days when the whole process of getting Atta from wheat was witnessed. Ladies at home used to wash the wheat and spread it across for drying under the Sun. Then we used to put it in a gunny bag & placed it in the cycle frame and went to flour mill. There we had to wait for hours to get that flour grinded & then put the gunny bag full of flour on bicycle & headed back home. On the way back, the cycle used to imbalance number of times then we asked for help by the people passing by.Good old days
Similar was the case with Mustard oil which is the product of mustard getting grinded in a KOHLU(remember Kohlu ka Bail or OX).Although its not condemnable that today's generation don't get the chance of doing all this as the products are readily available in the super market but I feel lucky in a way that we witnessed such basic processes.
phir milenge...
bhupinder.
One fine day I went to Pragati Maidan for some Exhibition.It was a wonderful day & after reaching there I took a bus from gate no 7 for respective hall. A kid standing just behind me asked his mother that "Mom, which plant is that"? pointing to a big poster of a plant outside. His mother replied candidly," Beta its Wheat from which we get flour for Chapattis". A strange feeling crept across my mind that today's kids don't enjoy the luxury of even live darshan of a basic wheat plant. I thought about our old days when the whole process of getting Atta from wheat was witnessed. Ladies at home used to wash the wheat and spread it across for drying under the Sun. Then we used to put it in a gunny bag & placed it in the cycle frame and went to flour mill. There we had to wait for hours to get that flour grinded & then put the gunny bag full of flour on bicycle & headed back home. On the way back, the cycle used to imbalance number of times then we asked for help by the people passing by.Good old days
Similar was the case with Mustard oil which is the product of mustard getting grinded in a KOHLU(remember Kohlu ka Bail or OX).Although its not condemnable that today's generation don't get the chance of doing all this as the products are readily available in the super market but I feel lucky in a way that we witnessed such basic processes.
phir milenge...
bhupinder.
