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The Postman of Khati
2018-03/2018-03
Project FUEL
India
"My father is the Postman of this village. With a humble salary of 165 rupees he raised four children, and gave them basic education and good values. I left Khati for a small job in Surat. It broke my self-confidence and took away my dignity. I returned back to my roots to find respect and love. You might forget home but fortunately home never forgets you.”
-Durga, 30 Inspired by his story, we decided to draw the portrait of his father on the wall of his house.
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Details
- Title: The Postman of Khati
- Date Created: 2018-03/2018-03
- Location: Khati, District Bageshwar, Uttarakhand
- Type: Mural
- Contributor: In the second edition of the Wise Wall Project, Project FUEL collaborated with The Hans Foundation to collect and paint the life lessons of the villagers of Khati.
- External Link: The Hans Foundation
- Medium: Weather-proof Exterior Wall Paint
- Project: The Wise Wall Project is an initiative by Project FUEL and FUEL Foundation to document the rural wisdom of our villages and celebrate it through art murals. The initiative transforms villages into living classrooms, turning the walls of the same onto blackboards and canvases that uncover striking yet simple life learnings. The project aims to ignite a movement of transforming the long forgotten villages into open-air galleries, exhibiting human wisdom for anyone and everyone in the world to see and benefit from. In the second edition of the Wise Wall Project, Project FUEL collaborated with the Hans Foundation to collect and paint the life lessons of the villagers of Khati. Khati has now become the second village after Saur, in the recent history to have a documented database of life lessons from an entire community. And as wishful as it gets, the village has now been transformed into a living storybook that tells the tales of Khati, like never before.
- Photography: Jaison James
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