As I mentioned in my previous post our village got electricity..May be it was around 1975…now I feel we were lucky to have electricity as even today after 76 years or so of our Independence still many villages have no electricity connections…who are responsible…you all know so I won’t mention here..
what I learnt till that day was that each tried to fulfil their needs…I mean the richer, powerful officials. As far as we are concerned we were helpless spectators..
coming back to my studies..like my all brothers and sisters I was also a clever student respected by villagers..parents used to come to our house for guidance for two reasons..one Patnaiks are said to be the intelligent people and they have wisdom and knowledge..after helping their children they were happily going back to their homes…
as I said all my brother’s and sisters were intelligent and stood first in school.
as far as I am concerned I may have shared that I was one of thevtwo students selected for state level competition.. I was selected for block level competition…then got selected for district level..will tell in next post about district level..let me tell about my studies under street lights.
we were reading with small kerosine light..even finding difficult to have full kerosene for the lamp..
when we got street lights I started reading under street lights late in the night..keeping a mug of water beside me..villager used to quote me as a hardworking student and expected their children to follow me..I used to get good marks and used to stood on top among all students from different villages..will share in next post of my district even selection..