Village Nights: The Voices Within

 

The moon has moved to the western horizon....
Dogs barking at intermittent intervals..
Jackals howling in the near-by fields.
 

Drum-beat ( नगाड़ा hindi ), the most favored percussion instrument of Village-Drama-Party ( नौटंकी hindi ) is just on..blaring on a loudspeaker....may be in a night-long performance....which has just begun in some marriage-procession ( बारात hindi ) in some far away village.
 

And as sun-set is a nature's call to the end of the day....everyone is fast asleep by this hour of the midnight.
I am wide awake...lying on a cot...near the old 'water-well' (कुंवा hindi ).... below the grand old Bunyan tree ( पीपल hindi )....

staring at sky !!
 

No one to share with.. no Internet.... no Computer and not even the sleep which gives an opportunity to move in to the dreamy world.
 

Such is our world..the village....at this hour of the night !!

 

#dated: 27th may 2012 sun

#picture courtesy:shared from internet