My home town has changed a lot. People have become richer. IT revolution has produced an engineer in each home with a very good job with fat salary, settled in City or USa, bringing home expensive gifts like cars to parents, or building new home for parents.
But there is a dark side to the story. Those young men who are left behind in the village are becoming extinct. They do not have any prospect of ever getting a bride and hence procreation. Hence the village schools are getting closed. They have old parents, mother finding it very difficult to maintain the house.
Then there are other parents, who have all their children in cities and are unwilling to come back home. These old people are migrating to cities risking ill treatment by sons and their families. Some are staying back in the village with large empty houses, which are very difficult to clean and maintain, farms which are difficult to cultivate as getting farm hands is difficult and expensive.
So my place is becoming richer but with old and tired folks who I think are nostalgic about the days when they were poor but had children.
But there is a dark side to the story. Those young men who are left behind in the village are becoming extinct. They do not have any prospect of ever getting a bride and hence procreation. Hence the village schools are getting closed. They have old parents, mother finding it very difficult to maintain the house.
Then there are other parents, who have all their children in cities and are unwilling to come back home. These old people are migrating to cities risking ill treatment by sons and their families. Some are staying back in the village with large empty houses, which are very difficult to clean and maintain, farms which are difficult to cultivate as getting farm hands is difficult and expensive.
So my place is becoming richer but with old and tired folks who I think are nostalgic about the days when they were poor but had children.
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