Search billions of records on Ancestry.com
   
Day 6, Nagarhole Game Reserve., Rajiv Ghandi N.P.
Village Scene
Return to Directory of International Experiences

Return to India Plates List Next plate
Return to India Travelogue

103086.jpg        
One gets some interesting perspectives about how people live in these small villages. Questions are also raised. A woman carries the family laundry balanced on her head. She's undoubtedly been to the local laundry place, maybe the lake or a stream. The clothes were probably laid out to dry in the sun.  Now, she's on her way home with them. Some men in the yard of the house are burning something. The woman has just walked through the smoke plume; look closely for the grey smudge just behind her. The man in ragged jeans and dingy tee shirt carries something wrapped in cloth. What is it? A goat's leg? A part for as piece of machinery? The question remains without an answer.  Note the fence made of brush. Does it keep things in or out?  If so, what? Maybe the chickens, goats or cows that wander around?  Maybe it just marks the boundary around someone's home. Villages are endlessly interesting and we get only a glimpse as we drive through.