1. As I was running helter-skelter for most of the day, though I played vocabulary jams, I couldn’t score in excess of 750 very often.

2. Helped untangle and coil an electric wire which was deployed to give current supply to the motor in well. That well gives sweet water whereas the water from the tubewell which is located besides the cowshed is not as sweet.

3. Tried learning the mixing of straw with leaves to prepare food for cows. Senile head of the trust has a peculiar habit of trying to control every department of every activity without which he feels insignificant. It’s a habit I have observed in every department and every household. These people never realize that there are better ways of doing work. They never realize that some people function better when left alone to do their work. It’s perhaps because in most factory models supervision acts as a goad for animals.

4. Such supervision in case of something which boasts of Swaraj becomes a farce. It’s a public trust based on capitalistic model at best with rude supervision. If the supervisor serves with example: even then the command is a help at times. But a senile decadent eldarin can barely do anything else but to annoy his underlings with his adamant and rude presence. This he or she does to merely play with their minds which is his only source of solace as he watches death crawling over him or her.

5. How much skill most of those tasks need? Minimal. They’re menial jobs and yet you can’t deny efficiency requires correct instructions for new members in any endeavour. Yet: lack of any scope for experiment or learning makes it a joke. They’re running like slaves 24*7. Most of them are concerned about their next meal like me. Biotic Farm or Organic Farm might have freedom of experiments for some resourcefully retired social servants: I only see a market driven place where they symbolically talk about ambar charkha and Khadi is costlier than a T-shirt.

6. Grain is costlier than the market grain and by a huge margin. It’s for officers. Not for common people. Same about milk. I requested for a small amount of cow’s milk and I was immediately denied. Anyone with a handsome income would get milk, vegetables or a place to rest. Not a real nomad or vagabond or a common man.

7. I asked the secretary about her salary. 3000 rupees. All whispered together: it was that amount a decade ago. Why would she tell a lie is definitely my business as far as searching for the Truth is concerned.

8. Ask anyone for help. Be anyone’s apprentice: it’s a temporal experience. They are running to fulfill a command. They’re rushing to make ends meet. They would like you to work their way. They don’t see any other way. Not that there’s not any other way. If they let you run your course: nothing would be left for them to partake in the main course.

9. Tried breaking some stones. Registered some titles in library. Learned a bit about Thrasher and Cutter.

10. The person employed to take care of farm as it’s the harvesting season, told me that he uses much advanced technology on his farms. Compare it with Israel, Canada and America. Why are they using outdated technology here if farming is the main source of income for this non-government organisation?

11. The cook thinks that it’s a government run organization. In an anecdotal conversation she told about the previous secretary who told him about her post being permanent. This all is given by government. I told her about the cook in our house who gets as much salary as she does with less number of hours. She then told about her struggle and other duties she performed painstakingly to reach where she has reached today: Aspiring to get a roof to her house.

Image courtesy: Gandhi Smarak Nidhi Chhatarpur Madhya Pradesh 471001. Captured by dancinglightofgrace.