I will not do justice to my childhood memoires if i fail to mention the different type of pets who were part of our childhood.In our Grandfather village whenever we used to go there which was mostly in summer vacations,then we used to play with our dog whose name was Moti and he used to lord over other dogs of that area and we were really proud of him.Apart from dog we had cows,bullocks ( who used to till our fields ) & buffaloes.In the early morning when we used to wake up,we used to find most of the farmers going to fields with their bullocks whose mouth was capped with wooden cap so they can not anything at the time of tilling the field and there neck were tied with bells which used to make beautiful sound when they walked.
At the time of holi festival there is a tradition of race between bullocks of different villagers with lot of prestige attached to it and everyone wanted that their ox should win.Before the race they were given a special diet and lot of colours were put on their bodies.The whole village used to assemble at high school ground to watch the race with lot of excitement all around.
There is another memory of our childhood of going to our maternal grandfather village which is around 8 to 10 kilometre from our village in a bullock cart which was covered with roof made of bamboo sticks and covered with cloth to protect us from heat of sun.It was really a fascinating journey.My maternal grandfather was Tehsildar ( District Collector ) of Maharajah of Darbhanga,who is considered the richest king of India at the time of British rule in India.So my maternal grandfather was quite well off and he had elephants,as told by my mother but i don't remember them as i was a baby but i have seen horses,bullocks,buffaloes & a small dog with hair all over his body named bijlee ( electrical ) and he was really as fast as his name suggest.
Then in bhopal we brought a parrot in a cage,my friend bhayuu had two rabbits of pure white colours with red eyes and we used to play with them.We also had fish of different colours & sizes in our fountain tank plus one small terrorise also.So all these pets made our childhood so interesting.
At the time of holi festival there is a tradition of race between bullocks of different villagers with lot of prestige attached to it and everyone wanted that their ox should win.Before the race they were given a special diet and lot of colours were put on their bodies.The whole village used to assemble at high school ground to watch the race with lot of excitement all around.
There is another memory of our childhood of going to our maternal grandfather village which is around 8 to 10 kilometre from our village in a bullock cart which was covered with roof made of bamboo sticks and covered with cloth to protect us from heat of sun.It was really a fascinating journey.My maternal grandfather was Tehsildar ( District Collector ) of Maharajah of Darbhanga,who is considered the richest king of India at the time of British rule in India.So my maternal grandfather was quite well off and he had elephants,as told by my mother but i don't remember them as i was a baby but i have seen horses,bullocks,buffaloes & a small dog with hair all over his body named bijlee ( electrical ) and he was really as fast as his name suggest.
Then in bhopal we brought a parrot in a cage,my friend bhayuu had two rabbits of pure white colours with red eyes and we used to play with them.We also had fish of different colours & sizes in our fountain tank plus one small terrorise also.So all these pets made our childhood so interesting.
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