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Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Birhor Colony & Road


The government of Jharkhand has built a colony for the Birhor tribe here and are now building a road to it. Work has started and it’s going on pretty fast.
The colony has been built for the third or fourth time. The previous colonies were uprooted and sold off by the Birhors as they didn’t like the idea of staying under-roof. “gharwa bolo hou”, they’d say. It means the house talks.
They sold every brick of the entire colony then. The current colony is situated in the same place. Lets see what happens this time.
The road that is being built to it is a concrete one and is an important road as it will be used to go to the railway station via the Birhor colony and the Mahuatand village. It is a good thing, but it won’t last for long I recon because it will be used by the tractors and trucks that transport bricks from nearby kilns and thus it is sure to be ruined soon. Had it been tarred it would have a longer life The road being concrete will require plenty of water for its curing and if not cured well, will break chip by chip eventually.

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