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The thing I will miss about this city the most is the farmer's market. It was around eighty years ago that it was first started. Small farmers from neighbouring villages came here to sell their produce. Now both sides of the entire stretch of this long road thrives with activity as early as 6 am. That's when the unloading from trucks and tempos begins. The sight by 12 noon is a riot of colour, noise, animals, people, blue skies and scorching sunshine. I am grateful to be a part of this. Its an artificial world when you constantly live in the glitz and glamour of a metropolis, and never stop and think where the food you eat comes from, where the green vegetables you are buying come from,who are the people who toil on their land and grow them. These are questions you would never stop and ask yourself because you are caught up in busy lives in a coccooned world. But here, I see the real faces, sunburned, tough and wrinkled maybe, who are the ones who grow the food you eat. I can't but marvel then at their resilience. And when you consider the difficulties that go into planting , harvesting, and travel to long distances to sell, surviving on that little income, you value the food you eat so much more. Its easy to eat food. Not so easy to grow all of it.

June 30, 2008 | 1:53 AM Comments  0 comments

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