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Even though his walking My dear countrymen, today
speed slowed down, his mind there are many women who
kept soaring on every flight are working in the fields as well
of imagination. In this flight, as touching the heights of the
Jeevan ji gave birth to a unique sky. Yes! You heard it right, now
art… he named it 'Baget'. In the women of the village are
this, he makes beautiful art flying drones as Drone Didi and
pieces from the dry bark ushering in a new revolution in
that falls apart off pine trees. agriculture.
The very bark, which people Friends, in Sangareddy
generally consider useless - district of Telangana, women
becomes a heritage as soon who had to depend on others
as it comes into Jeevan ji's till some time ago… today those
hands. Every creation of his very women are completing
bears the fragrance of the soil the work of spraying pesticides
of Uttarakhand. Sometimes it is on 50 acres of land with the
the folk instruments of the hills, help of drones. Three hours in
and at times it seems as if the the morning, two hours in the
soul of the hills has permeated evening and the work is done.
that wood. Jeevan ji's work is Neither the scorching sun,
not just art, it is a sadhana. nor the danger of poisonous
He has dedicated his entire chemicals. Friends, the villagers
life to this art. Artists like Jeevan have also accepted this change
Joshi remind us that no matter wholeheartedly. Now these
what the circumstances are, if women are not known as 'drone
the intention is strong, nothing is operators' but as 'sky warriors'.
impossible. His name is Jeevan These women are telling us that
and he has really shown what it change comes when technology
means to live life. and determination go together.

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