Roopraj prajapati was hunched over a half finished dhurrie, his deft fingers, honed by nine grnerations of weaving legacy, flying across the loom to complete the remaining half. Durry Udhyog In Jodhpur Rajasthan, “the best dhurries could take up to a month to finish,” he explained, after welcoming us to his home in salawas village in jodhpur distice of rajasthan. he offered us bottled water. he had quit school after 7th standard, he said. no, let me put that in quotes. “I quit school after 7th standard,”he said, in precise English superior to the shaky efforts of the travel guide who shepherded us into the boonies.“I wanted to preserve the legacy of prajapatis, the weaing clan that I come from.” Durry Udhyog In Jodhpur Rajasthan.
Over the next hour, this remarkable man with a sharp head encased in a colourful Rajasthani turban called safa, said us in thrall with his story. We were a group of hand-to-impress itinerants. one of my fellow travellers on this foray into the sticks packed an oeuvre of 40 books , half of it travelogues that have taken him to the remote corners of the earth. but even Paul the remote corners of the earth. but even paul theroux nodded in admiration at this engaging entrepreneur from the outback who might well be the new face of india. Who says you need to have an MBA from Wharton or Kellogg or an engineering degree from caltech or MIT to be counted as a global Indian? Shortly before we hit the hinterland, we had been discussing the Chindia story, the boiling India versus China debate that is being milked by every business publication across the world. Having travelled recently in interior china, I Gushed about the single-minded focus, discipline and determination that seemed to be lifting that society compared to the ceaseless debates and bumbling disorder that seemed to characterise Indias growth story. “But China is a country without a soul,”exclaimed Theroux, Whose epic rail journey across China some three decades back resulted in some rather corrosive narrative in Riding the Iron Roosterb.
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