Barely two months ago, 2200 kilometers away in the tiny village of Gunjung nestled in the hills of Assam, I was walking around paddy fields with villagers who had no exposure to structured scientific education and global conversations on climate change, but who understood the importance of water security. Passed on through generations, they had intimate knowledge of how to build their lives using the resources in their surroundings.
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The lost songs of life
Twenty-two years had gone by making a life in a big, unknown city with a stranger. Being a mother, a homemaker, building a new home every two years. The jackfruit and guava trees; girly conversations full of laughter by the pukur; Mrs. Sanyal’s piercing look through her glasses; Manav Kaka’s sesame laddoos and ghoogni; Rajesh Khanna wooing Sharmila Tagore, all had faded into the grind and loneliness of the city life.
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