All good things must come to an end. So did Katai yesterday evening - there were two khets in morning of 16th - one at baharadurgarh (~ 10 acres) and another one at Krishi Shaala (Yamuna Banks ~ 28 acres). All General party male members were supposed to go to Bahadurgarh and the ladies + DEI staff and students were supposed to go to Kirshi Shaala. As it happened, all men folk except ones in Arz went to Bahadurgarh. This created a problem because as the wheat was being cut by ladies there werent enough bundle parties.
The Yamuna side khet is 1.5 KM long stretch along the Yamuna bank - it stretches about 0.4 km towards Yamuna. The land seems fertile enough - the khet close to Yamuna are on greyish sand - you dont really need to cut the wheat - it just gets pulled off - and you just dust the sand off it.
Eventually everyone realized the mistake, after cutting and bundling (but not loading ) the 10 acres in Bahadurgarh, men folk came to Krishi shala. GH gave instructions to load 40 trucks only after which the khet were supposed to be called off in the morning. I do remember seeing atleast 600 people claiming chyavanprash last evening with a promise to work till the end of the khet - however by 11 AM - there were porbably 300-400 of them left.
We started again at 2:30 AM - gents loaded off the Bahardurgarh katai first, Ladies did Binai in the Krishi shala - we loaded off all bundles into waiting trucks as GH sat in his scorpio and watched. All ladies left at 6:00 PM and gents soon afterwards for evening satsang. It was quite a site when ladies were making their way out, the dust which was being generated was like a huge cloud which seemed to have covered the door.
So there it is - 350+ acres cut from 9th to 16th of April. I couldnt get a chance to go and work at thresher this time - but probably next time. It has left quite a few marks on the body - but generally it wasnt as bad probably because you were just mentally prepared.
I think I will be back for Rice Plantations and Rice katai to write more on the blog. at least one of us (Ritu or me) will be there.
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The post is good, on the notes of good thing coming to an end, well your katai has ended, ours has just begin. Madam made a grand announcement launching the harvest season using words instead of sickles :)
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