The Quint: In Uttarakhand’s Ghost Village, This Lone Resident’s Choti Si Asha
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2024
- 66-year-old Vimla is the lone resident of this village, one of the many ghost settlements in the state’s remote rural belts.
“Earlier the place was full. There were people everywhere, eating, drinking, living together. But because of lack of infrastructure and schools, people started migrating. Now I am here alone,” Vimla tells The Quint.
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Look at her , after struggling enough she is smiling... And that's life ..she is true women..
It's so beautiful life living in places like this. i lived for 1 yr.
@@Kamleshbishtcom it seems like you're from my place ...yeah I feel full emancipation whenever I be at my place ...and I will try to live there till my last breath...
@@ravi-fq8cz true. I work online
So, who is false women? Anyway, I envy her solitude.
@@sauron2000000 she is true women expresses her geniune struggling life without caring about what is the struggle,(it is a phrase),
I also envy her solitude but I only can admire her dedication towards life that's it ,
She doesn't look alone , she is satisfied with nature and herself ,she is funny and beautiful . What a true self, This lady shows the real meaning of yes I can live alone , there's no problem.
I felt the same!
Wish I could live a life like her's
@@ZephyrBreeze01 you can , peace starts with in
@@namangaur19 thanks for such a positive & energetic response..!! Wish u the same 😊😊
I highly doubt that she is happy.
It is painful to see empty village. This is story of almost every other village of uttarakhand. And trust me no way people feel happy when they see empty villages.
@@rupeshsinghrawat4800 , You may have a point , But happiness and sadness comes from expectations with in , and these mountain peoples don't have much expectations , it's just our view , from their point of view i think its normal for them .
I can't imagine how lonely and scared she feels but still has the power to smile and laugh that is just beautiful. It is the kind of power that I want too but sadly I'm not as good as her
sher bhi ghumte hai
I am from Uttarakhand and tears rolled down into my eyes when I see the reality. A day will come when this will happen in almost many villages.Government is not focusing on these.Thanks to quint.
ek baar uttrakhand devoloped ho jai phir toh plot hi plot hai pahado mai
Uttrakhand maybe not developed like Delhi,Maharastra but still I love my Uttrakhand.
Low Crime rate
Low Poverty rate
Pleasant weather
Easy life .
True,
But now a lot of people coming in from corrupted areas of the UP,Delhi,Haryana are spoiling the place.
@@abhinavnaithani7344It's very bad to hear that about 3500 village are abandoned .. Government should do something
No needed for Devloped ..This Is The Heaven..🙏🙏
How will be crime there when people are not present in villages
Yes, and no need of development
educated people now coming back to village as corona attacked them in metro cities
Lol no one is going to villages wtf are tou talking about?
@@mrsteelnutz bro i am from Utarakhand and in my village many of the people have come back from metro cities.. ... Becoz of corona.. ...
@@neerajmehra889 bro i also live in Uttarakhand, Dehradun and i can gor sure say that no one that has a real job/business or family has gone to a village come here from a metro city, literally only those people are doing this who don't have a real job or a business and are in trouble financially or don't have anything to do in the metro city, people with respectable jobs or businesses are NOT MIGRATING
@@neerajmehra889 also this is stupid because getting corona virus in a village is just as easy as in a metro city if you don't take any precaution, its stupid to think that you wont get corona virus in a village LMAO
@@mrsteelnutz you seem a bit pressed about it. I personally know so many people who have left metro cities and went to their respective villages thinking it is safer over there.
Grandma is so sweet and innocent.Just look into her eyes....🤗🙏❤️
I love my uttrakhand❤️
Srishti Bisht plains mai reh karr love my uttrakhand wah.
@@vatsaltripathi2628 I live in uttrakhand. Uttrakhand is not limited to only one village.
Yes , but this is the fate of many villages in ukd
People like u have left the ancestral home and settled in plains ....
Very bad
@@vatsaltripathi2628 Do you know anything about me.
Dude just think before writing something like this...
@@vatsaltripathi2628 u are true ...
But
Even u talk big since i are also residing outside ...
Nobody mostly came the village of UK except some army and defense personnel .... ~ truth (thats why every child of village want to join army ~ because they see only them , nothing else )
I think even ur ancestor also from up ....may be
But ur concern is totally right ....for that i bow down ....
I watched this video thinking it's a haunted village. Thanks click bait😂😂😂😂
Me too🤣🤣
Same here😂😂😂
This is not clickbait, you just don't know what a ghost town or village is
A ghost town/village essentially means an abandoned town/village! This isn't clickbait
It ain't clickbait. It's just that you lack a bit in vocabulary
By seeing her smile 😊 we can assume how much she loves her village and natural beauty really govt needs to think about these people.. By developing proper infrastructure...
Uttrakhand Devo ki Bhoomi🙏
Uttarakhand meri matrabhoomi, matrabhoomi ooo meri pitrbhoomi...oo bhoomi teri Jai Jai kara mera Himalaya 💖😭🛤🧳🏔🌄🐾
But she's free from the hustle and bustle of the city and breathe fresh air in every single second God bless you dear .
A pahadi myself but born and brought up in Delhi. Have loved the times when we used to go back to the mountains during vacations. Eagerly looking forward for the day I could permanently situate myself in the village back in Uttarakhand 🔥 Impossibly beautiful place I'm glad people are not crowding there just like the cities for then the beauty would be completely tarnished.
me too
Ditto
@RASMO Autologs Well, I hope the same for you. Let me know how have you been contributing to counter this situation.
@UCAVXH_hb5N2GrdxxewSRjfg I mean if you belong from the UK mountains, you're technically a pahadi! Kumaon and Garhwal are just regions of those hills 🌄 Also I think anybody belonging from a mountainous state is a pahadi!
Having permanent work from home makes me think why not setup my work from home from mountains only.. but again there are challenges like Internet facilities electricity and many more.. I think it will take at least 2 months to overcome all those challenges but it will be a great adventure and great learning too.. I am surely gonna explore this October. I already have some plans to make things accessible for other people too but lets see how it can be done.. :)
Being a kumaoni.. I can say that this is indeed a sad situation in the hills.
But the fact that people in comments are saying "proud uttarakhandi" or something like that.. lemme tell you there is nothing to be proud of this thing. Instead we should ask our state govt that what have they actually done since two decades.? Why are kumaonis leaving kumaon and pahadis leaving pahad? Why are our villages converting into ghost villages?
The fact that pauri is the most affected district is so ironic as the CM himself hails from pauri..! People should not be "proud" of this "accomplishment" of our govt..!
So true
You're right
She is not crying neither wants to show by just being dull She is talking in a normal way and Happy way such a strong woman .
How innocent and cute is she 😍😍such a cute strong soul 😘😘😘🕊🕊plz govt walo s request h iss gao ko dekho iska vikas kro taki y akele na rhe log phir aa jaye iss gao m apne bacho ko pdane but see akele h phir bhi kitne strong h 😍😍 kitni positivity h inke ander salute to her
She is too brave and kind.. She facing lot of difficulty but then also she is smiling and joking.. She is true gentlewoman.. Hands-off.. God give her all kind of happiness..
Reporter: you can see the whole village behind me
*literally one building *
This is sad
Looks like u haven’t seen what village look like houses are not near dear !!! Visit someday any village then u will understand
@@frostyice8109 wats the logic in that..? Houses are houses, wetr itz village or city !
Pramod H Nair in village houses are like one is 100m far to another one 🤓
@@frostyice8109 🥺 strange
Government must help her..she is a true daring woman such an inspiration for the generation. one should not go away from their village because village is the true home for us and we can't ignore it for our needs. one must come to their village in couple of time in a year because someone is still waiting for us to come back home
This woman is giving me too much positive vibes... I don't know why💞
My native place is tehri gadhwal, now I m in dubai n family settled in Delhi for more than 2 decades. But still v r connected to our roots our Uttarakhand,😍our family vacation ❤️ perfect place.
Mulla in tehri how ??
@@awu1330 same like inhuman, hate monger in INDIA. It happens. Diversity ❤️
@@SalmanKhan-nm8if brother khan sirname gadwal ke native nahi ha , koi si bi history padh lo , ya toh tum vo honge jo dara sikoh ke bete ke saath jinhone sharan li thi ,varna khan gadwali nahi hote
I am from Hamirpur hamichal pradesh..becoz govt ne yaha bahut kam Kiya hai..schools,hospitals,jobs kafi kuch hai..isliye Himachal ke log Himachal me hi hai..Uttrakhand govt starts work to stop migration
Dont worry everthing in this universe execute in a cycle ....
As in city like delhi
Population increases with alarming rate , water dearth , pollution , violence , disease , discrimination , noise , sanitation , violence , crime , industrialiastion ...etc
People will come again to there पहाड़ ~ law of nature
Yeah but concern is that the quality has been destroyed 😢
Arra bhau hamirpur taan thoda plane chi ounda.
Bhai pauri is very different from hamirpur
Yaha na tow koi river hai na road.
Mostly people left this place in early 1990
Moreover over CM is from Pauri district including Army general
Nsa Ajit dobhal
EX Election commission chief om prakash rawat
RAW CHIEF Anil Dhasmana
Even Uttar Pradesh CM Adityanath belong to Pauri District.
and this clearly show that everyone has left this place isolated.
Whats bigger mistake is Uttarakhand govt is doing is settling outsiders in Uttarakhand, especially people from UP/bihar , people should awake before its too late...crime rates are increasingly there drastically
me too from himanchal 😀
what the hell is wrong with people making joke out of this,this is a serious problem, government never provide facilities there,they have to live in their own at own risk,and still they say mera desh mahan
They never gonna know this
She is such a lovely lady. Her million dollar smile shows her grit and her positive thinking nature. Immense respect and love for this brave lady. May God bless her.
Loneliness is peace!! ......I am ready to spend my whole life like this
Peace
True.
Its solitude . 😊
Imagine at night all your neighborhood empty , pitch dark outside would you even look out of your windows. ( And then u watch a horror movie😜)
This women is much more clever then many educated people
How she is still hopeful and smiling in this tough time......is something very inspirational .
I remember seeing videos of deserted villages in China few years back. As China is making transition from developing country to a developed country, many Chinese fled from villages to cities in search of jobs. Same is happening with India. This creates a massive problem as cities become crowded and villages deserted. The only way to avoid this problem is to provide villages with facilities like electricity, water, gas, wifi, schools,offices and other things like cities irrespective of area. Then villages will not remain villages but a small city with same facilities as metro ones. Only this can avoid migration and unequal distribution of population.
The utmost priority should be employment. Unlike rural villages of Indian Plains, uttarakhand has a very high literacy in Hills >90%. Every second person is graduate. Why would a Graduate live in Hills when there is 0 employment opportunity except govt jobs.
Although she is speaking hindi but we can understand her garhwali in her tongue. Thanks quint to showing this report
Touches every villager heart
Itna kuch hone ke baad v kitni khush h ye.. so Proud of you
This is the fate of pahadis... People settled there from plains and now coming back to plains..
nobody settled from plains. they were there since ages. and now they moved.
hey we are here from starting
For centuries our entire bloodline has been here in these mountains, no one ever came from the plains...
@@psd4349 A pahadi myself but I do agree with original comment where the person states that we really do not have a deep rooted origin in the hills (though those who loved the place stayed there and made it home for a considerable period now and some migrated even further or returned back when it was feasible for them) Our tribes moved from lands in Rajasthan and other places similar to escape the invaders of those times etc. In UK there are several other tribes too that came from foreign lands and from the North East etc. It's an amalgamation of people from various places now all together fit under the umbrella of 'pahadi'. No doubt it's not only us who've moved places, people from all over India have been doing that.
@@chandrikarawat8606 we are pure indo aryans and tibetians mixture do not say bullshit
I love my Hometown Kausani, Uttarakhand - Devbhoomi❤️
I don't know why but I am feeling peaceful listening to her voice..
I am from uttarakhand and i can feel the pain of staying in these areas.... Once the road gets damaged there is bo transportation... Communication... Even the infrastructured hospitals are very less.... I can understand the pain what the grandma is going through and that loneliness around her where no one is there speak... No one is there to watch..... It is lot a difference living in cities having that noise, u can watch someone on the roads having fun and all, u can have good time in cities even no one is there to talk to u...but there in these places if you dont have neighborhors belive me the city people can't even stay there for 2 days...... Its all habitat.... But the thing is when is the government going to take responsibility....??? If you have a land or 4 walls to live it doesn't mean the government duty is finished for you.... Wish the people re setttle there and grandma would fell the happiness again..... Smile grandma. #pahadi
You gotta go that village again as reverse migration happened recently due to the pandemic. I really wanna see how many people came back and is aunty ji still happy.
we all pahadi's know .....what is dadi ji holding in that glass 1:39 🤣🤣.....and then talking...'cause MOOD is necessary...but loved this episode...🙌🙌
The most important reason for migration is High literacy(>90%) in Hills and 0 employment. Every second person in Uttarakhand Hills is a Graduate unlike rural area of up/bihar where people can do blue collar jobs.
I thought it must be haunted but it came out something else.. This lady Vimla is lovely n her way of talking is so beautiful. She is a gem.
This literally melt my heart after years tears just rolled out😐
Hats off to you dadhi .... you are ultimate... your ethics are wonderful ... single women in an abandon village .... one of the strongest lady 💪🏻👏👏👏
Damn she is living alone for years without tv or net...here we ppl cant even stay at home in lockdown...i cant even stay alone in my house
She is so positive ❤❤
The Quint Thank you So much 😢🙏❣️
Its a middle- term phenomenon due to drastic growth in cities and economy. In 5 to 10 years not only infrastructure will improve but also many of generation which shifted to cities will start to come back after their economic situation improve.
True
Yah honestly I want to go back and I am not even from there I’ m from Mumbai born and brought
touched by the strength she is holding on to live and surviving all alone ..saddened by the reality that government did not took initiative for its district .. people had to relocate themselves ..those who had money they left and who those who didn't they had to.. i hope her son also gets better understanding that her mother is all alone here and take her with him .. may God giver her strength to live her life and maintain her smile as always ...❤️
That reminded me of my village 😔. I'm pahadi too
bada ho jauga toh delhi chod ke mussori mai rahunga
धन्य हैं आप। जो इन विकट परिस्थितियों का अकेले मुस्कुराते हुए सामना कर रही हैं। यही उत्तराखंड की नारी की सबसे बड़ी विशेषता है। पर इस गांव के जो अन्य निवासी जो अब प्रवासी बन गए हैं उन्हें अपने इस प्यारे गांव और अपनी जन्मभूमि को इस प्रकार बिलकुल नहीं भुला देना चाहिए। हर परिवार से कोई न कोई अपने घर में बारी बारी आते जाते रहना चाहिए ताकि ये गांव कुछ तो आबाद रहे और इनका भी अकेलापन किसी हद तक दूर हो। सरकार को भी उत्तराखंड के गांवों में पुनर्वास पर ज्यादा ध्यान देना चाहिए और मूलभूत सुविधाओं की व्यवस्था करनी चाहिए ताकि प्रवासी लोग किसी अपनी जन्मभूमि से फिर जुड़ पाएं। साथ में प्रवासियों को ये भी याद रखना चाहिए कि ये उनके पुरखों की धरती है और उनकी भी जन्मभूमि है। आने वाले समय में वो परिस्थितियां भी जरूर बनेंगे जब सभी प्रवासी अपनी जन्मभूमि को फिर से दिल से अपनाएंगे और हमारा उत्तराखंड फिर से गुलजार होगा। ये भी याद रखिए कि यही आप ने इस बारे में गंभीरता से नहीं सोचा तो उत्तराखंड की इस पावन धरा पर कब्जा करने हेतु बाहरी लोग हर तरह के प्रयासों में लगे हुए हैं।
I'm from uttarakhand, we have 24 homes in our village, it is almost abandoned. People there have no sources or choice but to leave their home. No one wants their children to deprive of education/english. Though i was born in city but i feel sad. Even the roads are constructed 8-10 years back. 2-3 hrs. Treck is common to go little market.
How can one manage to live their.
Dev bhoomi doesn't deserve this.
What a beautiful soul ❤️❤️
ये गांव भूतों का गांव कैसे हो गया भाई जहां इतनी अच्छी सच्ची इंसानियत रह रही है।
ये जगह तो शहरी शोर और अमानवीयता की होड़ से दूर है ।
प्रकृति की गोद है।
स्वर्ग है सही मायने में ये जगह तो।
I like her attitude. Alone but confident and happy.
Uttarakhand has always been used as a Political tool by every government. This is indeed a grim reality of our beloved Uttarakhand's villages.
Leaving birthplace will be so emotional
We separated from up in 2000 with hope of development. But it did not happen. Don't develop it but govt should atleast provide better education facilities in uttrakhand.
This is a true reality of Uttrakhand 😔
We also moved from pauri to delhi but came back to dehradun. The government is so corrupt here, doing nothing for the welfare of pahad, pahadi cuture and pahadi people.
Why doesn't his son take her with him to gurgaon? Shame on him! Find him and ask him. But slap him first!
Buddy I have seen many women who don't want to leave their husbands place till death.
Yr yeh lady ek baar bhi problem bta ker royi nhi...I want to become like her...I want to win myself...how hard it is to live alone in life..but still being so cheerful
I also want to live this life 😳 just amazing
I don't know, but my eyes filled with tears after watching this video, But Aunty ji is happy there hence she is smiling, Mai to khungi aunty ji bs government suvidhaye de apko paudi me magar aap delhi jaisi polluted jagah pr kbhi mat aana , people Also here are not gud ... Aap "Pahado ki Rani" ho, God Bless You 🌼
@Manny Blackstar tu krde na chutye donate ?
Grand maa bahot cute h❤❤
Why government doesnt change this places to tourist spots?..
"ulti ki dwai dede srkaar to mai chli jaungi* XD
This video was uploaded 3 years ago, I wonder what happened to the village and to aunty ?
i am moved by this super lady. A true hero with an amazing smile on her face. Wish i get a chance to meet her.. May Allah pak fulfil all ur prayers
I Love my Uttarakhand 😊
Atleast she is safe from coronavirus!🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
Ap kitni positive n happy h itna sab ke bad bhi heads off lady . May god give u all the happiness. ❤️
The way she speak lagta hai bagal Mai Beth Kar bss Sunti rahu🙂
I love her smile...being an uttarakhandi I feel shameful ki itni sunder jagah se playan karwa dete hein parents...but I wanna settle in my hometown
Pani ka problem,bijli ka problem,aur kitney problem hongey.but she is happy.
Yeh dekh kar bahut accha Laga.
Ek kitchen banado govt en aunty keyliye PLZZ PLZZ
A Big Salute To Dadi
Keep it up...Doing good work...unbiased generalism
Great person… her inner strength is so high ….
She lives alone but have a smiling face .......lv u aunty g
She's self isolating herself from this cruel world 🙂
Mata ji ki awaaj mein kitna skoon hai yaar ....Still smiling
Very sad atleast once we should visit our devbhoomi... Leaders minister ko toh koi farak nhi pdhta ha 😒😒😒
I want to go there and stay forever😍lovely place
Me too🙃
I m from Uttarakhand...and it's not easy being there.. it's takes lots of courage and mental strength........take scotch if you want to live there...
What a lovely soul
❤her smile after what all she is facing made my day.
It's difficult to have such a courage.
Inspite of serene natural beauty , fresh air and soothing calmness ..
I wish and i am feeling concern for this lively lady who is living all alone there, that there must be someone beside her to take care of her in case of any emergency or illness.
pls do not blame people. i could've never lived the life im living now if my dada had not moved out. look at Switzerland they have less plains too. but government policies are better than us. no medical no school mediocre transport poor communication and many more. government is to be blamed thats all
Thanks quint for showing this.
Thank God it's not happening in Himachal.... people prefer cities due to cash crop they don't wanna leave villages Thank god we are naturally blessed with this climate
geography of himachal and Uttrakhand is same but condition of Hilly areas of Uttarakhand is worse than HP development only happening in plaine areas where non pahdi live
This women is so sweet and positive!
More video on this issue needed!
वैसे तो अकेले रहने में खराबी नहीं... पर ये तो एक अजब मिसाल है....पूरे गाँव में निपट अकेले रहना बहुत हिम्मत और धैर्य की बात है. उनकी रसोई और रोजमर्रा का सामान कैसे आता होगा..?! रात में बिना बिजली के रहना... !! और इसके बाद भी शिकायत नहीं और चेहरे पर मुस्कराहट..! Hats off to this incredibly strong woman.
Her son works in gurgaon , but can't take his mother alongwith him. Son's like him are a true disgrace to society. 😠
There are two things. 1st, the son could be barely able to earn both ends meet, 2nd motherly enchantment of village. I m from uttrakhand , i know hw it feels for a women to close doors of her house forever.
Nopes pahadi elders find it extremely difficult to adjust in plains. The closed space , hot weather etc
She has a son working in Gurgaon. Why the fuck he left her alone there?? He should have taken her along with him😐
M from Uttarakhand and bastard govt BJP and Congress didn't do anything......we want reform....my village faces scarcity of water for,b4 independence......we r forced to migrate.......
I have lived in UK and been to such villages. This is the dad reality, people are moving to cities like Dehradun for work and facilities.
She is so bold n strong lady God Bless her 😚
Hey
Every village story in uttarakhand. People migrated to better places for education and work. But now after corona people went to their village "jab chot lagti hai to maaa hi niklta hai na"
Just one question!!
Very humbley and respectfully!!
Where is #Deepak Rawat sir???
I know may be he is not responsible for that region or something like that but still he is there in that state and many students like me admire's his way of working!!🙏
So sir please it's a humble request to you,
to kindly look into the situations out there....🙏
What has happened to my beautiful Garhwal 😭😭🙏
Now these are being used as quarantine centres
Such a sweet and brave lady.
'mere piche pura gawn dekh sakte hai' 😂😂 piche sirf ek ghar tha
Bhai in uttrakhand houses are sometime even 100 metres apart due to the terrain. So u can't see all houses in a hill in one frame, other houses may be at a higher level or lower level. Seems you never saw a hilly village
her son is the worst entity who left her alone
Plot twist: She's the ghost living there....!😁..
Just joking.....
Love my uttarakhand ❤❤❤
KAVITA RAWAT plains mai reh kar love my uttrakhand wah kya baat hai
@@vatsaltripathi2628 saii baat bhai
@@shubhamchauhan5499 ku bhai agar aap vedsh me nakuri karogege to I love India nhie bolege ....Wah apna state h jise log miss kare rahe h majoobri bhut kuch sikhte h ...aur rojar ke liye Jaana padha h ....aagar vedsh Gaye to apna Desh yaad aayega
@@vatsaltripathi2628 Apko kese pata chala ki woh plains mein rehti he? 😓