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Our Ancestral Home was in JHALU (Bijnor) where, we were born, brought up and lived till we settled down in our careers and left for different places. The house was built by our ancestors ( not known by whom) and it was owned and preserved by our family from generation to generation for many generations. I know at least my grandparents and parents lived there and we ( our generation ) disposed it off in late 1970s by selling it to our neighbour- Virendra Kumar ( Chowkrayat) . Otherwise also it would have been destroyed with time without care as all of us left the house and the town to live elsewhere.
Normally, we are sentimentally and emotionally attached to a place or even a spot which we have used for some considerable time. Ancestral house becomes a HOME and we are especially attached to it. Your emotional touch with people or places depends upon your association with them. I am especially attached. Even after so many years, now even the house is completely demolished, it remains in my thoughts and dream. I remember each and every corner of the house with smaller details including five overhead stoarge spaces ( TAND= टांड ) in different places. I used to help my grandmother who used to clean the whole house on the occasion of Deepawali.
Not every place we live become HOME and we get attached to it. Like, we had "Dilkusha" in Civil Lines, Bijnor, I had no attachment with, it had only commercial value as PROPERTY.
The concept is fast eroding as people in new generation are born in one place, brought up in different places and move to and live in different places depending upon their jobs. Most of them live in rented houses .Some people even get attached those rented places if they live for longer periods or some events take place over there. From childhood till now, I lived in several houses and places and how do I feel about them, I will write in my second blog.
