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Answer:yes, I have visited a lot of villages in Andhra Pradesh, India. I feel so lively while in villages especially, my village GHADIYAPUDI !

To begin with, my dad hails from rural village, Ghadiyapudi, where there was no bus facility till 1997. Dad and Mom works in a relatively small town, however, they consider each opportunity to take us (my bro and me) to our village, specially, all those 2 months of summer holidays.

I must admit, those summer holidays were the best memories of my childhood. I feel like Princess while with my grand parents.

To start with, every day by 3 PM all my cousins and I brace our self and go to our Gundlakamma VAGU (mini-river in my village) and swim, dive, pick pebbles and play until 6PM.

Some days, we go to our cousin’s mango gardens (its very far place from where our houses were) spend time and play.

And you know, our early morning schedules starts with this, yes, I milked the cow a few times with the help of my grand ma and my aunt. And those animals have bond with all the people at home, they even recognize me and vice-versa.

I often visit our VARI CHENU (rice plantation) but only once tried this, I was a kid then hence they insist me to sit and watch.

And the taste of freshly ripen Gauva from the banks of Gundlakamma is incomparable.

We had a few tobacco grading units, during the seasons all the elderly women go and do the grading all by hands no quality checkers as they do now.

while coming from our farms, road-siders offer TEGALU(Tender palm shoots), TATI MUNJALU(Palmyra Fruits), EETA KAYALU(Indian Palms seeds)

All our aunts (PEDDAMMA,PINNI, ATHA) not by blood but by family name sit together and apply mehandi during the afternoon chit chats.

And the never ending thrust for swing during ATLATADDI (KarvaChauth) is still with me.

I dont have any picture of my village but it almost same as the below pic, there will be around 100 houses surrounded with rice plantation, river, Mango plantation etc.,

And the grand fathers meeting in early evenings look like..

PULI MEKA (Village hunt game) quick and challenging..

ASTA CHAMMA (Indian LUDO)

Well, I tried to put my villages & activities thru images but there are a few important things which can not be depicted in pictures, like

Sharing and Caring, When some guests visit my home, all my cousin’s mom’s ensure that we have enough milk, vegetables also lends hand for any house hold help. Its not that we dont have milk its just that we could host the guest well with full pantry.

No house is deserted, some or other keep moving in and out, talks were on cattle, roads, farms, revenues, cousins and everything under the sky!! Thank god there was no electricity & mobiles back then so everyone had time for other.

The festivals, MUGGULA POTI(Rangoli competetion), BHOGI manta, Devudu Oregimpu (Sacred Professions with Idols on bullock carts)

We never needed caterers for any KIND of ceremonies in our village as our aunts(again by surname not by blood relation) are enough to cook and serve hundreds of people.

And many more, Needless to say, it was a heaven on earth(at least for me).

You might wonder Why am I WRITING in Past node, because our beautiful village was submerged now in River Gundlakamma as part of the Mallaram Irrigation project. Eventually, each family in our village scattered to different places of world.Now, the caring and sharing is HAPPENING over Wats app group.

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Of course, I have visited villages in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, France, Spain, Britain and Italy, and Greece, and Australia, and Mexico.

I usually felt all right. A village is a small place compared to a town. It’s less noisy. There may be COMMODITIES that are not to be found in a village, but in Europe at least there are towns nearby around or in which there is everything, and public transportation.

Actually, I live in a village… even though it’s called a town for historical reasons.

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