My Village — Matra

This pristine landscape is nestled in the central plains of Chhattisgarh 🇮🇳

It’s situated an hour ride from the State-Capital;

And the mighty river Shivnath flows just a few miles away.

“Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly” ~ Edward Albee

Seemingly, a humble countryside… Yet!

Breathtakingly,

From Spring to Winters, it changes its rhythm 6-times a year

🙄

These 26-years have been wonderful in and around this adorable settlement 🤘

Papaya orchard and Roma.

Today, when “Global sense of place” is gaining currency… 🌎

How does it feel like to indulge in the rustic charm of the rural areas? 🤔

Alright.

So, Let me take you to an amazing tour of our lovely village — Matra ☺️

The main street cuts through the heart of the village;

Morphologically,

It is a semi-compact, linear type rural settlement! 🏘️

Villages in India wake up well before the dawn. PC: Nishy

In Autumn,

Come and witness…

The lush green meadows, blossoming with Marigold & Jasmine🌻

Here, I do not mean to belie…

The exquisite farmlands & their fragrance do not cease to mesmerize every passer-by 😉

In such an enchanting aura,

You will find those villages of the fairy-tales quite real 🤡

“If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change” ~ Buddha (PS: During arrival of Monsson 2020)

The blooming and blossoming trees that adorn Matra during Spring 2020

A glimpse of our flower-garden at Matra in Oct-2019

Endowed with 2 public water-bodies; surrounding fertile lands; flourishing truck-farming 🚜

And laced knowledge & digital connectivity 📶

Matra is all set to be a Smart-village 😎

Kids awaiting their School-Bus (nearby Academic World School offers world-class infrastructure and services)

National & State level awards have been bestowed on Matra for maintaining cleanliness 👸

“Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest” ~ Douglas Jerrold

People are living in complete sync with the mother nature for hundreds of years.

Geographically,

Matra is immune from all sorts of natural calamities!

It fosters a community-driven robust ecosystem 🏞️

Abode of the world’s most important pollinator of our food crops — Reena

Matra is producing…

Engineers, Medical Professionals, Armymen, Entrepreneurs, Leaders & Officers

like no other village in the country 💪

The tall & handsome — It’s Indian Gooseberry of Matra during Spring 2020

This is another version of Spring — when the Western Disturbances intensified

During Monsoon breaks fluffy Altocumulus clouds make the sky an amazing spectacle (2020)

Very rightly,

Mahatma Gandhi used to say…

The soul of real India resides in its villages

Certainly, Matra is the living example of this!

It’s the People who give a unique sense of place — The Matra Pariwar :)

We get together to cherish many festivals across the year.

The sense of bonding & belongingness is incredibly strong among the people of Matra 🙏

The whole village rise & sink together!

Cultural Classics — It’s all here in Matra (The Ramleela stage on 19th March 2020)

Notably,

The girls & women have been the flag-bearer of Matra’s success story 🙋

We take pride in the gender empowered status of our birthplace!

Indeed the cultivators are the most important citizens — Sandhu

I traveled across the length & breadth of India 🏃 and then realized…

The serenity & ambience of my village is unparalleled 👌

Cricket field of Matra, all set to host a tournament in the shivering nights of December — 2020

Now, finally…

Technologically smart, ecologically resilient, economically sound, socially interwoven & democratically vibrant

With all the love and gratitude…

It’s my beautiful & progressive village “Matra” ☺️

The heaven on earth — It’s my Home Sweet Home :)

Renovated, reinvigorated and reinvented it’s my house showered in rainbow colors — During the advent of winter 2020

It was the beginning of 2021 and the peak of Winter that engulfed my house in Red blossoms — how can anybody not fall in love with it!