Male ego goes high

Today was discovery of male ego. First in terms of men who did not like Shama and Shama's style of working as they thought that she took away their say in political issues and second in terms of when Shama identified a work for men and tried to do something for them, men did not seem to take interest at all, maybe it too was against their pride. 
So today I started my journey of validation of points I had discovered in Anegundi. Hence I started from our very own starting point. Since this was last day in Anegundi, I wanted to go to Raghuvendra Swamy temple. So we started walking towards river where we met three met who just simply standing and talking to each other or gossiping maybe. I went upto them and asked about the issue I had discovered about men and women.

To my surprise all of them denied the fact that Shama Pawar is doing good to ladies and also said that she does not pay wages as much as ladies deserve and also that men do have a lot of work of farming. Hence men have a feeling of envy towards women of village and they completely deny the fact they are jobless or they keep wasting their time:

Story of Hoolgappa:

“Shama ke niche jo ladies kaam karta sabka nuksan hota hai, vo kamati hai itna aur kaam karne walo ko sirf din ka 60 rupees milta hai. Humko yha khoob kaam hai khet ka” says Hoolgappa drowning in male ego.

Males in the village do not feel they have less employment opportunities. Farms, Small shops are enough for them to survive. They do not give importance to Banana fibre workshop either. Hoolgappa works in farms.

Story of chinappa:

He says that Shama buys so much of our land and does so much other works and they don’t have a say in any of the matters. Working in farms since very start in his life, he doesn’t feels that Shama is doing a good job, they feel that she is a big woman and can do whatever she wants but he does not like her say in village matters. He says that village has work for men and they are satisfied by it.

But doesn’t feel satisfactory to me, as most of women I spoke to either had idle husband sitting at home or their husband had died because of drinking issues.

Then I after coming back from river, we thought of going to Banana fibre workshop again hence we headed back again there. Still one of my questions was unanswered that why is it that mostly muslims work in factory?

As we walked inside, We saw that factory was empty, there we met the craft manager and the new intern. Craft manager Vijay told us that today was holiday for ladies as today is Eid. My question became even more relevant now!

He told us about how final products are made from banana fibre, he explained us the process in detail. Just when he was about to finish, Shama Pawar arrived. Something great happenedand we were not expecting that at all. Finally after she had five minutes to talk to us, I got answers to all of my questions.

She said that muslims have beautiful hands  in art and since history known they have been born artisans so that is why she chooses muslim ladies over hindu ladies for making the final product! She started the factory in 1997 and since then she has been handling the factory single handedly. She still keeps on bringing in new types of bags, boxes and keeps inventing other items for her factory produce this is the most interesting point about her. Even when she has so much to do she pays equal attention to everything.

She is such a lady that she can inspire anybody to work, I guess that is what turned this sleepy village to half awake village. Ladies were right, Shama has an inspiring personality.

So I did discover that men do not want to work internally. Maybe this is the reason why males are unemployed?