Mapping Marasandra.

Mapping Marasandra

Mapping Marasandra was our main objectives on 20th July. We reached the place at 9:30 am started moving from the highway towards the village and marked the route along on the paper. Also this times we went during the morning hours which is a bit different from the afternoon hours we went last time.

The mornings were much more quieter than the afternoons. Ladies busy washing clothes and utensils and doing other household work and men mostly stated their work, opening shops etc. Not many children were seen outside playing but on a contrary the number of cows grazing was much more.

We had to divide the group into two and went into two different directions. Taking the route from the main shelter on the potter, towards the kin, the murti making shack, the shack where the old murti's weer placed to the brass casting shop and then the vineyard we went all along and i made a rough map while others wrote the information of the surrounding space.

Once we all came together a combined map was created of the area all together. We had some more ideas in store to get the locals to chalk their own village but were not left with much time.

Reflection and learning

The main difficulty in making the map was sticking to the scale. However we managed to make one not so exact but clear enough to locate the space around.

We also learnt how the village is interdependent to some extent. Most of the things needed are made or grown by the villagers themselves so they hardly need to go out daily. However many have now started doing jobs in the nearby ares because of which the craft which has been done there since generations is slowly dying.