Rashpal Birdi (03/10/07)

That’s, er, my father-in law and mother-in-law’s very old picture, my father-in-law was ninety-six years old, and, er, my mother-in-law was, er, eighty-four years old. And they both died. But that picture was in, ahm, Delhi. Very old house, old furniture, and everything very ahm, and uhm, we’ve still got this house in Delhi… now. Nobody’s living there, we locked up… that house. We go there, every year, yeah, to look at the house, everything’s alright, everything’s fine, yeah. (…)This is uhm, hand-pump model… that used to be very old type, when people were living in villages, er, and there is only one hand-pump in the, in the area. And people used to be, go there, and er, hand, up and down, you know. Then water, put the bucket on the front of where the water come from, and then, then they fill it up… take it home. You know, people used to put it on a head, and on a side, fill it up and then turn by turn they are were using water from the hand-pump. It’s very old model(…).

Note: Rashpal Birdi contributed Photograph & Water Pump and curated Mohinder Bachu’s Kashmiri Shawl.