Though
this might look as though the second, actually speaking this was actually the
day on which we ventured out and into the field. Our Topic or theme for the day
was development. Mr & Mrs Gautham wanted us to trace the signs of
development. The task was to reach Co-Op milk society, speak with people &
try to learn their life by ourselves, now we are all our own. Disconnected with
our world, now the Attapadi people's world is ours. We climbed down from the
top of the Sarang hill and reached Palliyara Co-Op Milk society, which was
patronised by Milma - Kerala's Milk Co Op Society http://kcmmf.in/index.php.
All the people from our hill and from other hamlets in the nearby villages came
to the Society building with their fresh Milk from cow. We were about to
Interview the Society staff, but they
were busy collecting milk, documenting the quantity and quality. So we took a
little break and had our taste buds immersed in local chaaya(Tea) and coffee.
That was the place where we as a team, learnt many things, locals travel a long
distance to reach this place, each family who supply milk, suppy it twice a
day. Each family has 2 or more animals, in this place, migrant Tamils and
Malayalees and Irula indigenous tribal people live in harmony.
After
interviewing and documenting loads of information from the secretary of the Milk
society. We came back, had the de briefing, it was about the concept of
development. We as a team sat down noted down what constitutes development. We
wrote on the blackboard, and finally Gautham explained that most of the things that we claim as
development was not at all asked by the people. Whatever we mentioned, was
our notion of development. It is always one size fits all concepts that were
propagated by people who wanted to sell things. Starting from, water to education
to what not. In the concept of development there is no mention about how to
live a peaceful and content life. Life is not just making and spending money.
These thoughts were nothing new, but, when you when start to see people who
live a very happy and content life, their words have power and you start
believing them. Amongst
Post
lunch we had a short but good nap, we started to river to have bath, that was
first time we had bath in siruvaani, Samarpitha had a bad time climbing down
the hill, after a good time
in the
river we came back to our cottage thru a jeep as climbing back is a BIG issue
for her. Day ended with nice dinner and it was from this day we boys started to
sleep in
a seperate cottage little far away from our main stay.
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