Village life in India
In India you can see progress everywhere. More people have cars and bigger homes, and tvs, ipods and cell phones are everywhere. Farmers tend to their GMO crops by hand, tilling the field with cows. It seems that India is progressing so quickly that it is skipping 100 years, trying to jump from the stone age to the computer age without making all the steps in between. In Ute, a village of 3000 near Umarkhed, women still wash clothes in the stream, no one has a car, and people live in thatch-roofed homes. But they are thatched-roofed homes with a satellite dishes on the roof, and many people have cell phones. Even with this progress life in the villages is slower, more peaceful than in Delhi. This is a part of India that I never saw on my previous two visits here.Swings are huge here. Everyone seems to have a swing on their block, and our guides are always asking if we want to stop and play on them. In the villages many people have never seen a foreigner before, and our visit elicits curious stares and we quickly develop an entourage of 20 kids and almost as many adults. The good thing is that everyone wants their picture taken, and with our digital cameras we can show them their picture instantly.
