It was Five in the
morning ..bitterly cold and I was up was because I couldn't take the mosquito
bites any more… Four hours of blood fest amidst my clapping and they still
didn't have their fill. I zipped my jacket, borrowed shawl (quilts) from my sleeping mother and came out of our
ancestral house.
I decided to take a
long walk and went to the adjacent Muhalla
(Locality) to Bundelkhand which houses equal proportion of Rajputs and Bhumihars
with few houses of muslims as well. Rajputs are the warrior Hindu clan and
Bhumihars proclaim themselves as Brahmins. Rajputs have their reservations about
them and think as the name states they are nothing but land grabbers (Bhumi =
land; Har=grab).
