Personal Narrative Essay: My Father's Land In India

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Narayana , fair, handsome , tall and lean, with sparkling eyes, a boy of sixteen years of a poor farmer , with a famished stomach , hunger to excel , brilliant mind and a kind heart became my father’s favourite. Babuji ( as villagers greet my father) , a senior bureaucrat at Hyderabad, had purchased sixty acres of land, from erstwhile Zamindar family, who were migrating to Australia.This land surrounded by a forest on all three sides, with an entrance from the north through a tribal hamlet , situated fifteen kms from Tirupati, my father’s native place and the nearest village to the land is Puttur, an obscure village on the foothills of eastern ghats ,five kms apart.There were only three buses plying from Tirupati to Puttur. From Puttur one has to walk to reach our land. No electricity or phone connections. As there were no buyers, my father acquired this land at a nominal price.Though my father was passionate about farming, he could not devote much time because of his busy job. Therefore , Four farmers, including Ramasami practiced rain fed agriculture on twenty acres of land, on lease basis , while forty acres remained barren .All the money my father pumped in for the last twenty years to develop this land …show more content…

NRIs in USA who believed Narayana and his sacred mission joined the venture. Today his company grows 70 varieties of herbs on 700 acres of land, giving employment to 300 Adivasi farmers.” . “Kalpvriksh” which became my parents permanent stay and my family enjoyed the summer vacations there every year The proverb money grows on trees, well , on herbs, proved true in case of Narayana , he taking home sixty crores per year. However, most of this money, he spent for the welfare of farmers, building the rice and dal mills , cold storages, market yards and agricultural labs. The prosperity is conspicuously visible all around. Tears rolled down from my

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