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Tintinnabulation tens bracelet Hindu women break the silence of the desert. Each of them sustain a clay jar that gape width. Foot-dragging naked nyeret on the soft sands of the Thar desert burning. This is a very important journey - travel search of water.

Hamlet belonging to the Hindu Ramser hidden behind the mountain of sand, separated from Muslim village. Collection chowra round the same, be covered grass, desert dryness membercaki, scattered in groups of simple houses that paled in yards-yards. Some of the walls of the home decor primitive image the shape of flora or fauna, cattle and goats - decorating living creatures that are not found in Muslim homes. While cow-cow real, well away to seem palpable bone belulangnya, relaxing in the sun on the sea sand, spend the days of boring.

Jaglo, a doctor, invited me into her home. Content is similar to the otagh place yesterday night I stayed in the Muslim village. Melompong empty. There is some cushion, eating plates, glass, photographs grandfather fathers, and the images of Hindu gods. That's it. Images of the gods, from the Syiwa until the blue monkey Hanuman thick red lips, tertempel neatly in the corner of the room. This is the altar for the Puja. Although the poor and entered the lowest caste, people here never utter neglect Puja.

Goddess and god-belief that made them survive. An enduring traditional way that has been inherited hereditary, which makes the wilderness experience is capable of years of living in the middle of dry kerontangnya Thar.

Hindu women every morning collecting cow dung that has been dry out, stored in the basket, and then dried in the home page. Its main function is to make a fire. Ramsar Hindu population but also use the dirt as it is indoors, ditabur in the house to throw fragrant aroma. In the academic Ayurweda, cow dung can also be used as medicine. Mothers who experience difficulties childbed, so drink water mixed with cow dung, the baby will come out immediately.

Framework of life-down to decrease also put women at a position which is always busy. In addition to collecting dirt goat, they also cook, find water, feed the livestock, the children, cleaning house, and delivered babies that never stops flowing from the womb. Even at the time was pregnant, these women instead of resting on the couch, even still do a job just kind of heavy water and the search for cow dung.

But the murkiness of the sand as if pupus if we see how dahsyatnya colorful clothes women this wilderness. Choli and polka, T-shirts with the cohesive short skirt round the legs, take all the colors are just a fantasy in this gersangnya wilderness. There are pink, blue sky, green rerumputan, and orange flowers. Instead, the women in the Muslim village Ramsar never wear skirt. They always put on a shalwar baggy trousers, even though the color was not less ramainya.

Rebellion colors this increasingly wild with chunri, face veil and cover the face. Chunri really comfortable in the wilderness like this. When the wind sweep the surface of Thar, an ear-ear to the throat fine sand, Hindu women face in this hide behind a soothing chunri. The veil has become a culture of women in the Thar desert, from Rajasthan to Sindh, any religion.

The women's wilderness is also close their arms. Not with a long sleeved shirt, but the loop-loop that form a ring. Namanya chura, white, number of dozens. Women who are married, chura his arm close round. The girls are still only at the bottom of the arm only.

Chura and rub against each line jingle when the women of this village Ramser running menyuri pile-sand dune, each clay jug mengusung in the head.

Sting of the sun is not a problem. Penyerap fine sand is hot, in the heat radiate back mentari in the earth surface. But the women, this is not a problem in the foot dragging on the layer of sand, which continues to burn. This has become their daily life.

Their two-kilometer walk, the old wells in the middle. There are some men, kid-kid, and four ass. Ass is what draw water from the wells in that. The four hapless animal is dipasung neck with wood planks, which are connected with the rope on the pulley mine pit.

At the end of the other, there are rubber bucket size extra large. Once the draw, the water can be directly seberat 25 kilograms. Unnecessary human labor, because the donkey is a donkey-animal respited more recalcitrant. Just a kid enough to control the way the ass to climb straight line as far seratusan meters.

Slowly, rubber bucket full of water that appeared in the wells of the slab is essentially dark. Now turn the village men to feed water to the poor population. The women directly berebutan fill their jug-jug. Kid-kid fill tire rubber in the shoulder-ass ass, number one means of transport in the outback desert. Old grandfather was also not lose riangnya, immediately fill kendinya and in-direct bury in the sand, such as the treasures of priceless value. After that is still locked padlock gerendel a size extra large.

Water is precious here. Setetes water is sejumput life. Water wells should be guarded carefully so not to be stolen. Those villages should be arranged so that the well not turn up dry. Ass-ass diperas no power to lift water from wells in which the inside. How cerianya faces is clear to see the flow of water filled pipe-pipe, flows from the downpours that appear rubber bucket from the well's mouth. My little mencicip. Uuuh ... it's sour, rotten, and full of sand.

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