Open Window: Supratik Chakraborty

Beauty of silence

Supratik Chakraborty

It could hardly draw an image of a definite village to the sensation of a person who has born and brought up in a city. Contrast between urban and rural world has been existed since long years ago. from my personal point of view I had not any certain idea of a village yes, I knew village is that where you could see small huts ,expanded farm touching to horizon, grazing animals and poor people .obviously these are the all I would think over a general rural figure .i would never dig deeper of it. A peculiar concept has been in our mind from very fast that city is that where I can get everything, village is that where you never can be able to fulfill your all demand. I was one of those unfortunate who deserved this concept. But this was totally ruined when I first visit Obar, a small village of Jharkhand.

                          As a student of ARTD we were led to the village Obar last year. We spent there only three days but duration was ample to change my perception. Obar is surrounded by Paina Pahar and deep forest about 70 families resides here, people mostly depend on agriculture as their livelihood.

Once you enter into the village would surely feel the hypnotic beauty of the nature. nothing is artificial over there .nature secure the life style of the villagers after seeing the people of Obar I can say that I have seen the simply city as much as a community can show .year after year they are being habituated in maintaining their own customs or norms every little things make them happy easily Obar is the only village where I lived, but it is not so hard to imagine the situation of other villages in our country. Our globalised civilization is standing upon the base of such countless villages.

As being the student of rural development course we have to interact with rural people ,we have to be familiar with their living pattern we always aim at enable them to form a proper participation but question may arise all this effort are really able to make a positive change over there? I personally think it is tough, since year after year which perception the villages have gained we the outsiders cannot make a huge change in a small duration

Rural and urban side have their own entity, village never can be town it has its own sofisticasy nature make a village rich after visiting other village too finally we get an ultimate smell that is if you never see sunset from the top of the hill, if you never lost yourself in a deep forest, if you never experience the silence of nights, if you never interact with solitary reaper, something will remain untouched in your life ,that is hundred times precious than a concrete figure.