July 2019 ACTIVITIES

Date	Activity	Begins At	Event Fees		Meeting Point
Date	Activity	Begins At	Persons	Cost per person (RS.)	Meeting Point
14 July, Sunday	COLONIAL WALK 1 : WRITER'S BUILDING, GPO ( GENERAL POST OFFICE ), ST.JOHN'S CHURCH, LAL BAJAR, RAJ BHAVAN, HIGH COURT	8:00 AM	1	3000	In front of Bow Bazaar Police Station
			2	1500
			4	750
			6+	500
21 July, Sunday	ELIJAH ROUTE: MOTHER TERESA HOUSE, SOUTH PARK STREET CEMETERY, PARK STREET, INDIAN MUSEUM, NEW MARKET, SUDDER STREET	8:00 AM	1	3000	In front of Mother Teresa House
			2	1500
			4	750
			6+	500
28 July, Sunday	MINDFULNESS WITH MOVEMENTS- AN UNIQUE HEALING SESSION THROUGH DANCE - WITH ANGIRRA CHAKRAVARTY	10:30 AM	500 per person		In front of Anandamela, Gariahat

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a day in the village

It is hugely different from the mechanised routine of the city that you and I are used to! There is a tranquillity in the village that you must experience to understand this. Coming? We are off to a village! To wander amidst the lush greenery, breathe air completely devoid of petroleum exhaust, walk along muddy lanes with paddy fields on both sides. Be ready for a new dialect, prepare for an easiness from people who actually grow and supply to the city the food you eat! Get ready to know the heart of your country!

Almost 65% of the Indian population lives in its villages and are dependent mostly on an agrarian livelihood. While villagers in hills use water from steams for drinking and washing; villagers in plains use wells, hand pumps or pond water. An Indian village is a closely-knit society and a guest of one is considered guest of all. Do not be surprised to face some unwarranted attention!

Dharani, a village in Bihar of 2400 residents, is the first fully solar powered village of the country.

Neelam is the village Sarpanch of Chappar village in Haryana where she has inspired the women not to wear “gunghat” but also to welcome a new born by distributing sweets, even when it is a girl child!

The Dhorra Mafi village in Uttar Pradesh’s Aligarh district holds a distinction of being the most literate village in the whole of Asia. With a literacy rate of 75 percent, the village has entered the ‘Limca Book of Records’.

Every house in Shetphal village in the Sholapur district of Maharashtra has a resting place for a live Cobra snake in the rafters of the ceiling.