Sanchore!!

I should have written about this long before but work kept me busy or rather say, i didn't take out time for this.
Though it is better to be late than never!!

Sanchore is the place where i was working for 3 months. A semi-arid region, Sanchore falls in Western Rajasthan and touches the Gujarat border. The place has Gujarati touch- in terms of culture. My 3 months stay in this place not just made me dark but i never imagined that 3 months in this place will make me miss it so much.. I never liked the place earlier but when i shifted back to Delhi, i realised that i miss the place as much as people, there..

Living in Sanchore made me change a lot. This is here i learnt to be totally self dependent.. This self dependency was learnt by, as small thing as traveling to remote villages and larger cities alone..I learnt here that people in rural areas don't have material pleasures to give you but they have a big heart and will love an outsider and will even not let that outsider know when s/he became an insider. My short stay in the place made me soo close to people that it is hard to not be in touch with them.. Living alone was another learning for me and i used to talk to my silence. Though this loneliness drived me away from the place yet that loneliness, i miss now.

Travelling to villages on bike - sharing the small seat with Mahendra and Bharat and sometimes even Prateek, trusting these strangers, who no more are strangers, heated discussions with Bharat at Amar Parantha house over our working strategies and meanwhile silence of Mahendra, struggling for food, eating eggs and eating non veg in a Jain family, counting coins of bharat which amounted to almost 500 Rs- Chilladbaaz, Mahendra calling me Paula, irritating my team when i fell asleep and didn't wake for complete 3 hours and they kept banging on my door for dinner, eating Bajre ki roti, ghee and Chanch at Viya Ram's house, giggles and laughter with women SHG members of Devasiyon ki Dhaani,helping them write their names and they helping in turn each other, struggling with MPOWER.. All these memories make me nostalgic of the place...

Though i am away now, yet i want say to my team members that memories can never fade away. They are much a part of me and have changed my personality and outlook a lot- for good..


Missing people and the place..