I and my village were lucky: a satire

 Bhishma Kukreti

(Satirical articles on rural development works; satirical articles on agriculture development; satirical articles on education system, satirical articles on government program for animal husbandry; satirical articles on village development hills of Garhwal ; satirical articles on development of  hills of Salan; satirical articles on development of Gangasalan; satirical articles on development of hills of Uttarakhand; satirical articles on development of Dhangu block; satirical articles on development of Dhangu Patti; satirical articles on development of Malla Dhangu)

                 My wife asked me to write about positive things around me and not to bark as television journalists and editors who are showing only negative happenings in India. As faithful husband (my friends say I am Bibi ka Gulam) I obeyed her.

              Now I am writing that I am lucky. I and my basic school were lucky that education department posted tens of children books in English language. On that time my village was not lucky having English knowing villagers including our teachers. Our school was lucky for having such intelligent headmaster. As soon as English books reached to school, my headmaster observed that no villager including a he and another teacher could read these English books he decided to sell these books to a tea stall wala. In return, tea stall wala sent Pakodas twice a day for seven days to the houses of our two teachers. The family members of teachers were lucky having Pakodas on daily basis for seven days. I was lucky too. I stole two story books in English while taking from school to tea stall wala. For many years, those books were lucky to be my properties as I was unable to understand those stories in English language. Later on my younger brother was lucky to get tea and Pakoda by selling those books to tea stall wala.  

    Our hilly village was lucky that we had a kind hearted Gram sevak. Our hilly village was lucky that Gram Sevak fought for our hilly village and got sanction from village development department two iron Western Ploughs weighing more than half a ton each for our hilly village. It was bad luck of poor Sudama farmer who tried to plough hilly field by one of western ploughs. His one of old bulls died pulling the iron plough that was stuck deep in a rocky area of field. Our villagers are not ungrateful to any government. The same plough is still there stuck in the field of Sudama farmer and is witness that Lucknow government was taking interest about agricultural development in rural hills of Garhwal. Since, Gram pradhans are changing every five years and no Gram Pradhan was ready to keep heavy iron western plough at their courtyards therefore, another heavy western plough is kept on the road of village entry to show our thanksgiving attitude that Uttar Pradesh government was conscious for agriculture development of rural hills of Garhwal.

     When Chaudhari Charan Singh Ji was chief minister of Uttar Pradesh our village was again lucky. Chaudhri ji was very much concern about animal husbandry development in hills of Garhwal. He dispatched male buffalos from Merut area to villages of Garhwal. People of Meerut were lucky that they got money be selling their unwanted male buffalos to Uttar Pradesh government. Villages of hills of Garhwal were lucky that they got free the giant male buffalo for breeding purpose that the coming buffalo generation would be Haryana buffalo generation.  

            The female buffalos were not lucky to have such giant male buffalo fellow as their companion. The female buffalos were scared of such big buffalo and they used to run away just seeing the big buffalo. Therefore, no body including village chief was ready to keep the buffalo in village. The Haryanvi buffalo was not lucky or competent enough to walk a centimeter on the hilly path of forest. Therefore, the gifted buffalo died after three four months. Our villagers are always grateful for others who help them. We call Bhains ko Pathar/Buffalo stone where the great buffalo died and that place is reminder that Uttar Pradesh government was conscious about developing agriculture, horticulture and animal husbandry in hills of Garhwal.  Uttar Pradesh government was lucky to have such villages those still regard the works of government.  

 There were other purposeful development works in my village and I shall be posting you about such great works by Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand governments for our lucky village.

Copyright@ Bhishma Kukreti, 1/7/2012

Satirical articles on rural development works; satirical articles on agriculture development; satirical articles on education system, satirical articles on government program for animal husbandry; satirical articles on village development in hills of Garhwal ; satirical articles on development of  hills of Salan; satirical articles on development of Gangasalan; satirical articles on development of hills of Uttarakhand; satirical articles on development of Dhangu block; satirical articles on development of Dhangu Patti; satirical articles on development of Malla Dhangu to be continued….