Life In The Village

          India is primarily a land of village. Gandhi always used to say that if any one wants to know India, he most go to the villages. He was the first leader to take congress from the cities to every nook and corner of India. He laid great stress on rural uplift, village economy and cottage and small industries. The experiment of Gram Panchayats as the first lesson in local self government as proving successful. An ideal village would indeed be a self sufficient village of Gandhi's dream.

          Villagers used to be superstitious and customs ridden people in the past. Now they have been made to came to the main stream of development due to modern communications system like T.V. and radio. Gone are the days information systems have overwhelmed every body in the world has become a big village. Whatever simplicity was there has now been spoiled by the unscrupulous village touts.

          Every year people migrate to urban areas to seek employment and earn a living. The villages. Village life is fast losing  its charm and the simplicity around it is eroding at a rapid pace.

          Increasing urbanization has left its own peculiar perils and problems on the villages. Village life is now subjected to economic imperialism of the urban rich spoiling the nicety of village life. One can notice urban intrusion in to village cultural life as well. Villages no more provide the people with that proverbial dream living, let alone high thinking. The lush green paddy fields, the small of cow-dung and cattle, the multi colored village fair or festival will be a thing of the past very soon. The rapid expansion of the city boundary has consumed in its fold many villages. What remains on the periphery has been a shelter for criminal activity which has considerably destroyed the charm of village life.