Most of the village homes have a concept of an aangan . This place has got multiple usages. A few of them being, place to keep the crops after the harvest, a place for family meals, where grandma would cook fresh on the chulha and serve us, who waited hungrily sitting on the floors, a place for learning how to walk, how to ride a cycle, a place to dry clothes, a place to hop around on the bricks when it rained and one had to put bricks to go to the other side....
The other side of the aangan is a non-pakka makaan, made of mud and bricks. This rooms on this side also served as a place to play hide and seek to the kids.
Now these rooms lie empty, perhaps filled with cobwebs only.
2 comments:
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The beautiful description reminds me so much of home.
I have so many memories of our family 'aangan' back in Lucknow. The sweetest part is that 3 generations have learnt to walk in that aangan - my dad; then my borthers and now nephews and nieces :))
:) Nice Swati!
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