Tea at Mau
Mau is a tiny village settlement at the outskirts of Maihar... It is one of the more than 6 Lakh villages of India. Nonetheless, it is largely dependent on agriculture for livelihood. Many of them either work on their own (less than 3 hectares) land, or opt to work on others' land as daily wage laborer. A large chunk has started working in the nearby cement factories, or one of the many stone quarries as the Baghelkhand region is a rich source of minerals like limestone. Migration of people to bigger cities, especially in the Northern industrial belt, or towards the west and the south is a burgeoning phenomenon. What is it that might be stopping people to stay at their native place? Poverty, malnutrition, lack of education & health institutions, ideological backwardness, infrastructure gap and so on. Many of them are semi-literates and cog themselves in low paying unorganised sector jobs. Education for children is a perpetual dilemma even though there are higher asp...