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ki Baat’ from Himachal
Pradesh. Ramesh ji has
enumerated many
specialities of the hills in
his letter. He wrote that
the settlements on the
mountains might be far
apart, but the hearts of the
people are very close to
each other. Indeed, we can
learn a lot from the lives of
the people living in the hills.
The first lesson we get from
the lifestyle and culture of
the hills is that if we do not
come under the pressure
of circumstances, we can
easily overcome them,
and secondly, how we can
become self-sufficient with
local resources. The first
lesson that I mentioned,
a beautiful picture of it
is being seen in the Spiti
laws’ house in Amoiya village of region these days. Spiti
Unnao, she was worried about is a tribal area. Here, these days,
her studies. But, BharatNet pea plucking goes on. This is a
resolved her concern. Gudiya laborious and difficult task on hill
farms. But here, the women of
carried on with her studies
through the internet, and also the village gather, and together,
pluck peas from each other’s
completed her graduation. How
fields. Along with this task, women
many such lives in villages are
also sing the local song ‘Chhapra
getting new strength from the
Majhi Chhapra’. That is, mutual
Digital India campaign. Do write
cooperation here is also a part of
to me as much as you can about
folk tradition. The best example of
the Digital Entrepreneurs of the
utilization of local resources is also
villages, and also share their
found in Spiti. Farmers who rear
success stories on social media.
cows in Spiti, dry up the dung and
My dear countrymen,
fill it in sacks. When winter comes,
sometime back, I received a letter
these sacks are laid out in the
from Ramesh ji, a listener of ‘Mann
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