My Father

[20/01/2023 15:47] Pankaj Kumar: My father, the Farmer, Entrepreneur,  head of the joint family, a problem solver for everyone....

Now a days there are many courses online and offline, MBAs etc. Where they teach abt various branches of Management and how to do things etc...

I have grown up in a village in the then Western Part of the undivided Uttar Pradesh  watching my father playing all the above roles with many more additional responsibilities...Being the eldermost Son of my grandfather, the responsibility of a joint family of 3 younger brothers and 02 sisters too came to his duties....

[20/01, 15:49] Pankaj Kumar: At very early age he started looking after his duties as the grandfather was very fond of starting some new venture one after the another  pinning his hope on his eldermost son who had to be recalled in between from his LLB course....

[20/01, 15:55] Pankaj Kumar: Having born in 1933, father got married in 1957 and I guess he started to take the family responsibilities from the age of 20-22 yrs only....Grandfather was the first entrepreneur in the family of simple farmers who knew only tilling the land with their ploughs...

Grandfather decided to install the first ever Ata Chakki in the village, later the Rice machine too was added...After that grandfather earmarked 50 Bighas of land for Mango and Leechi Bagh....

After this Grandfather went ahead to install first ever Sugar Cane Crusher in the village and also bought the famous Russian made Field Marshal Tractor for our 150 bighas of land which was being ploughed with the Oxen and ploughs only

[20/01, 15:55] Pankaj Kumar: There started the machenisation of farming with few more machines were added to the family kitty...

[20/01, 15:57] Pankaj Kumar: Now grandfather was also a trained Homeopath and he was also fond of travelling to relatives and used to be away from home for longer durations so the father has to step in to look after everything which was started by the grandfather...

[20/01, 15:58] Pankaj Kumar: By then he was also started getting help from 02 of his younger brothers full time and 01 part time as one of my uncles got the govt job of a Gram Vikas Adhikari and was posted away from home...

[20/01, 16:01] Pankaj Kumar: My father used to manage all the businesses apart from the farming...At times there used to be around 35 workers engaged in all these diff activities, who were paid and fed by the family. I always found father busy doing one or the other task yet never found him tired or angry or annoyed. He used to be ready for every responsibility which used to come to him being the Head of the family of around 30 to 35 members...

Perks of living at a Small Place

[09/01, 18:53] Pankaj Kumar: Perks of Living at a small place....

I spent the best 7 years of my life at one of the most beautiful and serene place in the hills of Uttarakhand, Chakrata....

Chakrata is not so famous hill station nestled in the hills of middle Himalayas situated on an altitude of around 7200 feet MSL....

A nominal distance of just the 40 kms from the plains make this place unique as one just can find himself at an altitude of 2100 mtrs MSL jus withing a travel time of around 2 hrs from the plains...

[09/01, 18:58] Pankaj Kumar: Chakrata do attract tourists but only during the summer and winter months for very short duration of time unlike many other hill station where you may find people on the roads round the year...The tourist season of Chakrata do start in the summers from around mid May and lasts till the first monsoon showers by 15 or 20 June...Thereafter till Oct you can just count the numbers residents on your fingers here. After June its just the locals and shopkeepers here. 

Another tourist season starts from the Month of Oct where few tourists start coming here but most of them do drop for Christmas and New Years eve only. And after New year eve people do come only for snowfall....

[09/01, 19:07] Pankaj Kumar: So basically throughout the year barring few months one can just enjoy the life of leisure at this beautiful but small hill station where everyone know everybody and even if you are there for your job you are easily accepted as one of their own....

You become the part of humble celebrations of few local festivals and fairs like Maroj, Magh and Bissu and being the small yet cosmopolitan place you can join the locals during the celebrations of Lohadi, Baisakhi, Navratra, Dashahara, Janmashtmi and Diwali too.....Apart from these festivals you become the invitee of many marriages and other local festivals religious and social ones ...

Even if its the small place with few shops and very small market you dont feel alone and you seldome encounter the feeling of lonliness which a stay in a big city at times can give you....

At small place you become the part of lives of all the residents, rich or poor, big or small as on daily basis you encounter just the same sets of people who you meet daily.....During these 7 years I was invited to lot many villages, lot many marriages and functions and fairs etc. I enjoyed a lot and now I am staying in a big city like Dehradun but here you feel like cut off from the humanity as if you are a non person for others....