Our friend Chandrakant took us today on a six hours car journey to show us some real Indian village life. We have been travelling all day and we have just arrived in a place called Zelud. On the way we have past many towns and villages. We have seen a lot of people busy in their field, working hard in spite of the scorching sun. The temperature in the shadow must be nearly forty and still people are harvesting their fields with the sub burning above them. I was surprised to see so many potato fields being harvested.

We stopped just a few times on the way for refreshments and necessary things to do. As we were driving our friend did explain to us some interesting things about the places we passed through. After arriving here we were put to bed to rest after a long and tiring journey. Then off cause we had walked through the village. We had taken in the many different smells and sounds and colours. The houses here are well built with bricks. The streets are narrow and the buffalos are outside or under the shade in front of nearly every house. In between we find the old fashion mud houses.
There is no regular electricity supply in this village but the house in which we are staying they have their own diesel aggregate producing the necessary electricity when need. They started to produce electricity to the fan in our room when we arrived. At the moment it doesn’t work. There is a frenetic activity going on to repair it or to find the cause for the electricity disappearing. I can still hear the diesel aggregate working, but electricity is gone. Therefore we have come out of our room which is dark now, to sit outside the house in a “terrible” heat of about 40 degrees. But at least I am able to write!
The computer has not been opened for many days now. I have been so busy, and I have been too tired to write anything. Now I have a lot of writing to catch up with. But my conclusion so far is that village life in India brings its own challenges.
I have just been given a cup of proper Indian spiced tea – chai masala – the best tea in the world. Only the cup of tea was worth the whole trip of six hours!