VILLAGE VISIT
This morning the two Gandhian visitors were taken to see a tribal village home and a school and I went along.
The only furniture in the village home was a charpoy, stringed bed, that is used for sleeping on at night and as a sitting place during the day.
Most of the family belongings are kept in closed tin trunks or large round containers except for a few clothes that are hung on a string to air.
A mud stove with burning firewood is in one corner of the house.
Out in the yard were maybe a dozen goats that provided milk and surrounding the house was a fence made of dried thorn bushes. Two women and some children were there with the men away in the fields.
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After looking at the house we went to the next door school where there were about 20 children in uniforms and a school teacher.
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The children posed for me and then were led in a dance by Shilpa which I videotaped. There wasn‘t room in the jeep so on the way back to Virampur Shilpa sat in the jeep to continue talking to the women and I sat on the floor of the back bed of the jeep and hung on as we bounced.
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BILLYBABA’S WANDERING 