Village Life Paragraph
There was a time when living in a village meant a life of peace and happiness. There were days when the villages had enough land to spare, and the nation lived in the villages. But now a village is not a comfortable place to live in. Those who live in villages fall into three classes, namely, the rich, the middle class, and the toiling mass. The rich are very few because they turn away from the village and usually live in towns. Some of middle-class people are landholders. But they do not cultivate the land themselves. They engage laborers who do all the work for them. The businessmen in the middle class are prosperous. The vast majority of the villagers belong to the toiling mass. They are poor peasants, landless laborers, artisans, blacksmiths, weavers, fishermen, and people engaged in other useful work. The village is, however, full of dirty politics. There are some shrewd people who keep up quarrels, rivalries, and litigations among the rival groups to get some financial benefits out of them. On the whole, the life of the villagers is a sad tale of woes and suffering. The village is generally the seat of poverty, squalor, illiteracy, disease, and death. But the importance of the village in our national life is very great. We must not forget that if the villages die out, the fate of our nation will be sealed forever. The village must be reconstructed at any cost and village life should be replaced to its former state.
