CULTURE OF JOY

They do not get 50 % to 70% meals annually, neither proper shelter to stay when on move , nor sufficient and clean water to drink; but they are today living symbols joy and undeniable proofs of total exploitation and deprivation in a land tribal development, where the Government and NGOs claim to be fully dedicated for their total and sustainable development since decades. No responsible persons come to their rescue in the times faced with natural calamities, man made problems except in the opportune times when non tribals can avail for themselves, heavy funds from national and international agencies, merely in the name of tribal relief through heavy projects and manipulate the tribal developmental funds again heavily. Where as the tribals are independent, self sustaining or self sufficient by themselves on the contrary they are providing grain, income, labour for the non tribals in legal and illegal way.

Also they strongly believe in fatalism, and ever since natural and man made problems began to haunt them, since 30 years more or less, in acquiring their daily food, they independently searched for it in the towns and cities of distant places. The developmental funds rolling to their land were spent on the papers for some one else's benefits, very evident mirrored through a life they live today and the whole tribal scenario speak more convincingly than before. Due to their swabhiman (self-respect) they do not beg or bow politically because they know that they are the ones to deprive them holistically. They honestly and tirelessly strive to get their daily bread with their own sweat, that too with swabhiman(self respect).

Even this year 2009, there is famine and drought everywhere in all the districts of Bhilanchal and 70% Bhils have migrated. Yet the funds will come and will be spent by all for all the Bhils, through all the months of the year including by the NGOs, but the Bhils of Bhilanchal will eat the bread (roti) of their own sweat, acquired by his own labour in some distant land, in his own way and not by the funds of those who aquire in his name, because they shall be spent on the papers.

Who are the most needly ....? Who are the most greedy....? Who are the most dishonest in the whole process ...? The Bhils....? No. Guess who...? In this context the Bhils prefer to starve, face starvation, respectfully face death and honestly die with dignity not cursing any one, accepting even death as part of their life, but under their own roof.

Bhils are the genuine embodiment of divine vitues, real temple of God, whom even the great missionaries could not give more virtues because their Bhagwan had aleady endowed them traditionally. And don't forget, bhils are the most honest citizens of India who prefer to face natural death and die, rather than indulge in begging, borrowing and robbing. These factors are parts of non tribal cultures whom no one condemns such as the police in Bhilanchal whole day haunt the tribals as if they are the the only and biggest miscreants of the land. Only now since a few years, due to migration, physically broken down, a few Bhils are seen to make individual options to beg and borrow that too with utter shame and humiliation. In this context an internationally reputed Hindi poet of Jhabua(MP) says that 80% of the Bhils are honest and live by their own efforts where as in the cities or among the non tribals it is just opposite.

But in the midst of exploitation, deprivation, manipulation, migration, even when there is no food to eat for days together, deprived of most of the human rights cultural rights, and all other indigneous rights, they still sing, dance and smile freely with joy, believing firmly that one day their Good God( Bhol shall bless them and their home land Bhilanchal) with abundence. And that day the long awaited golden age will come. In this hope of millenarian live with joy because the style of life their culture provides.

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