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Village Life in Karnataka

Gowri Vadmal

KCA Essay Participant 2009 (Elementary)

Gowri

I visited India this summer for two months and I got to go to my grandparents’ city and some villages where my great grandmother lived and couple of other villages. In those villages I saw people making rice in clay pots. In that village I got to play with house cats, calves and chicks. All the houses had rangoli in the front. They put flowers every morning at the front door. The roads in those villages were small and were made of big stones. There was a drinking water well in front of the house.

People were very friendly. I got to drink fresh milk from home cows. I got to see paddy field and sugarcane field. I got so see coconut trees and drink tender coconut water. I also went to a pomegranate and papaya field. There were also few sweet lemon and lemon trees. I got to the first tractor that was used in the farms which is still running.

In out village I saw beautiful rangoli and I got interested in learning it. I also learnt to make a string of flowers. I want to go back and visit again.

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Village life for a mother

Lahari kankar

KCA poetry participant 2009

A rooster sets the alarm at dawn

There's a house to clean and breakfast to make

Kids to wake and send to school

And lunch to pack.

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Akshara Baraha

Shiva Gowder

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What is Karnataka?

Tushar Jois

Tushar

Karnataka is a state in India. It has an area of 74,122 sq mi (191,976 km²), it is one-half the size of California. Bangalore is the capital city of Karnataka. Mysore, Mangalore, and Hubli-Dharwad are the other big cities in Karnataka. Places to see in Karnataka are Bangalore, Mysore, Hampi, Bijapur, Belur/Halebid, and Shravanabelagola. Most people in Karnataka speak the Kannada language.

Karnataka is bordered by the Arabian Sea in the west, Goa in the northwest, Maharashtra in the north, Andhra Pradesh in the east, Tamil Nadu in the south and Kerala in the southwest. Physically, Karnataka consists of the Arabian Sea Coast, Western Ghats, Deccan Plateau, and Eastern Ghats. Karnataka's history dates back to the 3rd century BC. The succession of kings from the Hoysalas, Chalukyas and the mighty Vijayanagara rulers, to the arrival of the Mughals in the 17th century and the British in the 18th century have contributed to the mix of culture and heritage that is as rich as it is ancient.

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