Come on; let’s move to our glorious childhood memories. If we recall those memories, we will find so many memories like orange, milk ice-cream, eight kampat in a one rupee, and small packets of cold-drink etc... We could buy all these things in a one rupee. If we will Google for glorious memories, we will not find any reflection of our memories. In childhood, there were on type of saloons. Besides that, we can recall many memories of childhood. For washing our clothes, we had to rely mostly on washer men/washerwomen. Otherwise we used to wash our self.
We used to play cricket,
football, badminton etc. no matter of winter or summer, we are always out in
big compound in our respective colonies but with industrial revolution, there
is no playground. Electronic gadgets distracts present generation from
attachment with the nature and family. Vacation was the time where we can enjoy
to the fullest at present most of the holidays are preoccupied browsing
facebook or other social network. Gone are
those days were we use to nag our parents to buy a chocolate, it’s so accustomed at presents that children
bug or threaten their parents to buy a new smart phone.
Because of commercialization,
all these small industries have been replaced by big industries. Due to this,
our small industries are going to vanish.
In recent loksabha elections, Julahas community of varansi blamed to
Surat’s sari merchants for ruined their industry.
There are so many
social groups like Dhobi, Nai (barber), which are associated with their
ancestral business. However, there is a change among these professions. As such,
it is important to know that what kind of problems, they are facing today. In the
race of commercialization small industries, professions are going somewhere far
behind. Commercialization has had a great impact on these occupations.
On this, “washer-man
Siyaram, who is working in gwayar hall hostel in D.U., says that because of
washing machine, laundry system, our occupation does not exactly like it was
before. It has affected our livelihood as well as our earnings.”
Close to hostel, a small
barbershop is also there. “Rajkumar tells about changes in his experience. He
says that I have started this shop in 1996-97. I have seen many changes in 17 years.
There was no concept of saloon before. Today, there are many saloons. People prefer
to go to those saloons. Because of this, now we are earning less and if you are
living in a big city like Delhi, than it is very worrying and hard.”
Close to barber shop, “an
Ice-cream seller says before orange ice-cream was available at one rupee. At that
time we earn more profit. Today, the same ice-cream you will get in 10 rupees. Now,
we have less share of profit. Nowadays, small thelees of ice-creamvalas have
been replaced by Mother dairy, kwality walls, Cream bell, Amul etc.”
A shopkeeper kali
bhaiya, who used to sell small packets of cold drink,. “He says now all
packets of coca-cola have been taken over by Pepsi and coca-cola. You know, the
cost of one coca-cola of 10 rupees is 2 or 3 rupees. We cannot compete with them. So, we are selling coca-cola and Pepsi now”.
Knowing all these things, it
is clear that every age has its own needs. People did not have so much of technique
before. People were depended on small industries at that time. Today, they are fighting
for their own identity. They have been left far behind.
If we will talk about future,
some where people associated with these small industries want that the coming generation
and next generation will not waste their precious time in this business.
Siyaram, Rajkumar and kali bhaiya want to see their coming generation to be
educated and skilled.
