Essays

People living in cities do not know what living in .a village means. They cannot understand the charms of village life. It is rightly said, "God made the country and manmade the town."

India is a land of villages who’s more than 80% of the population lives in rural areas. The people living in villages lead a simple and peaceful life and majority of them are farmers or agricultural laborers.

The village people are very hard-working. Early in themorning when most people in the cities and towns an A sleep, village is awake and full of activity. The farmer'are seen going to their fields with the plough and bullocks to till the land.

The women tend to their cows and buffaloes and milk them. When free from this work they cook food and take it to the fields for their husbands to eat.

They also come to the village well or the river bank to get water. They also tend to their household duties and clean and sweep their houses every day.

Most of the houses in villages are made of mud. They are built in clusters with a common entrance at fix front.

In earlier times there used to be no water-taps, electricity or doctors to look after the health of villagers. But now-a-days most villages have electricity and water supply and health centres.

Every village has a panchayat to settle the disputesamong villages and also for preparing development plans. Most villagers are also for preparingdevelopment plans.

Most villagers are superstitious and worship the villagedeity regularly. If there is a wedding or some big function, various cultural functions are held and villagers can be seen wearing colourful clothes.

Majority of villagers are poor and lead a hard life. Butthey are simple, honest and are very happy as they haveno worries and not many wants.