Being
an active contributor of empty bottles here in Dorokha for the last three
years, I look back to yester years and piled bottles around with much insight
and questions. I just wonder how Dorokha could manage to empty up so many bottles.
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A
tiny place, we called a town here hardly takes five minutes to make a thorough
trip. This brief five minutes’ walk would formally and methodically orient any
fresh visitors to the actual life we lead and are leading here. Variety of
empty bottle mountains, mounded in so many artistic and non artistic ways by
the sideways of each shop gives a first impression that bar runs the best here,
and with a few more days of hang-about would definitely confirm your first
impression the right impression.
I
do not have much knowledge about other places owing to less travels I made to
date, but I believe we drink a lot here. In the midst of our occasional session
I often ask myself; why do we drink?
Every
time the question crop up in my mind, I note different grounds to drink for different
people at differing times, but in Dorokha people usually drink to kill the time.
Here,
drinking is an entertainment, it’s a work out, it’s a social media, and it’s a
news channel and so on… I
remember a friend of mine narrating a story of how a teacher placed in a
secluded area became addicted to alcohol and had to undergo rehabilitation
programme for so long to do away with the habit, at least he succeeded in
leaving the drinks to live but there are many who fails. The most interesting
part of the story is that every time he presses the switch on button of his
Television, he used to murmur “had you been there”, (meaning had there been TV,
he would not have gone for drinks) the man finds pleasure in TV and even has
myriad stories of how he would pile up stones only to peep into neighbors TV
room through well curtained windows.
It
denotes that human need options to be good or something not so good would tie them up.
I
wonder if a similar story could unfold here, because we cannot play here unless
one doesn't mind getting hospitalized for a slight fall on stone carpeted
grounds, one cannot watch TV unless you don’t mind repairing it on weekly basis due to thunder storm and lighting and on top that hide and seek kind of power supply makes it even worse, reading
doesn’t have a place here as of now and recurrent power cuts and slow
connectivity doesn’t favor internet either.
Amid
such complexity, Dorokha is a beautiful place and one can find so much here if
one wishes to find, climate wise you will experience a brief moderate before
and after the sub-tropical summer unless one welcomes alpine with the turn of
December till March. Our dear Amochu gush down the foot of the very hill you
dwell and snow caped mountain up the hill top timely reminds us of growing
Himalaya’s presence northward, historically we live in one of the oldest and
biggest Drungkhag with the earliest inhabitants (Doyas/Lhops). With all its naturals’ settings, Dorokha deserve a
quality man-made setting too…
what NEXT........?????????? To be
continued….
