Amazing Life in Villages and Sustainability
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Traditional Villages are very rare to be seen. This is the watermark in the history, where the urban population exceeded the rural population. Villages are evolving into towns and cities. The characteristics of the villages are being lost. The sustainability and continuity of villages from past and present are shared here by the author. The author contributed to the development of villages.
Sai Bhaskar Reddy Nakka
I am involved in Environment and Development work for the past 25 years. Contributing to Climate Resilience, Environmental Sustainability, Disaster Risk Reduction, Rural Energy - good stoves, biochar, Water Resources, and Agriculture. An innovator, writer, podcaster, lecturer, presenter, and development professional.
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Amazing Life in Villages and Sustainability - Sai Bhaskar Reddy Nakka
Sai Bhaskar Reddy Nakka
Amazing Life in Villages and Sustainability
First published by Council for Green Revolution 2019
Copyright © 2019 by Sai Bhaskar Reddy Nakka
Sai Bhaskar Reddy Nakka asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.
This is an ‘Open Knowledge’ book as declared by the author. email: saibhaskarnakka@gmail.com | http://saibhaskar.com | The cover page image is attributed to https://clipartxtras.com
Published by: Council for Green Revolution (CGR): # 1448, Street No.17, Banjara Green Colony, Road No.12, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad - 500034, Telangana, India. Email: contact@cgrindia.org, Website: http://cgrindia.org, Mobile: 9676957000
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Contents
Preface
Village visit
Smell of manure
Water point
Bullocks
Stream
Monkeys
Mud house
Special summers
Simple food
Stoves smoke
Toddy tappers
Connecting People
Playing in the fields
Banamathi
Traditional medicine
White horse
Betel Leaves
Learn to swim
Transformation of villages
The culture of tribals
Poverty doesn’t defeat pride
Sacrificing villages for development
Wild animals in villages
A village failed to offer a cup of tea
Poor and destitute
Farmers
Sustainable Rural Livelihoods
Smart villages
About Council for Green Revolution
About the Author
Preface
Traditional Villages are very rare to be seen. This is the watermark in history, where the urban population exceeded the rural population. Villages are evolving into towns and cities. The characteristics of the villages are being lost.
This book ‘Amazing Life in Villages and Sustainability’ written by Dr Sai Bhaskar Reddy Nakka brings various perspectives of the villages. In this book, the glimpses of the villages - past life, present situation and future adaptation options are presented. The sustainability and continuity of villages are shared here by the author. The book is also a historic document on how the villages existed and transformed especially in the last four decades. It covers the values, beliefs, gender, systems and practices in the villages.
The author is having a broad understanding of the villages. He is a keen observer and contributed to the sustainable development of the villages. He has traveled extensively and visited more than ten thousand villages in parts of India and other developing countries. The narration style and the language- including the usage of words specific to Telangana region - makes it most interesting. There is freedom in the expression. A book for everyone interested to know about the villages.
Village visit
I have so many memories of the time spent in the villages since childhood. I was born in Regadi Mamidipally village, it is the native place of my mother located about Seventy-five kilometres from Hyderabad. Assisted by a Mantrasani (midwife), was born in the night. It was December month and it was so cool due to winter. To keep me warm in the night, my grandmother, warmed me by the heat of a biomass stove in the kitchen. In those days, the tradition was that daughters always delivered their babies at the mother’s place. So, the birthplace was mostly the place of ones mother’s home. In those days, for technical reasons, one cannot claim the original birthplace but need to be associated with the native village or the place of education for all purposes in life.
In the 1970s and 1980s, there were very a few transportation’s means to go to my mother’s village. It was remote in those days. To reach the village, after getting down a bus, we used to walk about Ten kilometres - all the way need to walk from Koukuntla gate, via Chanugomla village and have to cross Sangamla Vagu (a stream) on the way. It was nice to drink some fresh water from the stream. This Regadi Mamidipally village had black cotton soils predominantly, therefore it got the prefix Regadi, it means Black Soil. During the rainy season, it was almost impossible to walk with chappals as the black cotton soil holds the feet and slippers tightly. The Shahbad chappals made up of leather and used tyre piece as the sole were much stronger.
Especially after reaching the village, it was even more difficult to walk due to the dry thorny branches of Nalla Thumma (Acacia nilotica plant species) which is used for fencing on either side of the dirt road to protect the fields from domestic animals. Often, the scattered thorns of these branches pierced the wet-feet without any mercy. It was challenging to identify some of the thorns which mixed with the black damp mud and many times they pierced my feet. The embedded thorns were often removed with the help of someone using a safety-pin after rubbing the place with some saliva.
After reaching the village, the guests would be directed to a Jarat for washing the feet - it is an open place used for washing and bathing