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प्रश्न
Talk to the elders in your family and find out if there were some special foods cooked earlier that are not cooked anymore?
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उत्तर
My mother shared with me that earlier; laddoos of sesame seed and of beaten rice were made at home. Now, we just buy ‘gajak’ from the market.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Which are the different festivals related to farming, celebrated in different seasons? Find out more about anyone such festival and write in your notebook –
The name of the festival, in which season is it celebrated, in which states of India, what special foods are made, is it celebrated only at home with the family, or together with many people.
Find out about the crops - cereals, vegetables, pulses - that are grown in your area. Of those, is there anything that is famous across the country?
Can you recognize these grains?
The bajra seed saw differences in the way Damjibhai and Hasmukh did farming (for example, in irrigation, ploughing, etc). What were these differences?
Damjibhai’s son Hasmukh chose to become a farmer like his father. Hasmukh’s son Paresh is not a farmer, but a truck driver. Why would he have done so?
Have there been any changes near your area, which may be difficult to call ‘progress’? What changes are these? What are the different opinions about them?
Visit a farm near your area. Observe and talk to the people there. Write a report.
There have been many changes over time, in our food. What can this mean? Use the seed story and what you know from your elders to explain.
What technology could have been used to cut the stem in picture 1?
What ways (technologies) would have been used to do the work shown in pictures 5 and 6? You can see that the dough is ready in picture 6. When do you think a sieve (chhalni) would have been used? Discuss each step in detail, in any language you wish to use.
