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a typical Gandhi cap, white shirt and dhotar. My another
uncle Babu tatya was a carpenter by profession. He was a

painter too. Another uncle Datta tatya was tailor. He loved
playing harmonium and Tabla. Black cap, shirt and half pant

was a dressing pattern of both the uncles. Pandurang was
the youngest brother of my father. He has his own watch
repairing shop at Kolhapur near the court on bhausingh ji
road. He used to wear a shirt and a pant.

Sunanda Kaku, Indu Kaku, Lakshmi Kaku and Krishna
Kaku were my aunties. All of them were hard working. My
indukaku is looking after her paralytic husband from last 12
years. She does his every single thing on her own. They all
used to work in farms.my youngest aunt Kusum kaku used
to wear a round saree and blouse, she was a delicious cook.
They used to cook on the chulha. My grandfather Gopal
Balwant Sutar was a fascinating and honorable personality.
He used to have feta on his head along with a dhotar and
white shirt. We used to call ‘MhatariAai’ to our grandmother.
She used to feed us jaggery and groundnuts also chapatt i and
jaggery.
We were a respectful family of the village. We lived in
a huge wada. We had a carpentry workshops in which we
used to serve with the carpentry services to the villagers.
And villagers used to give us a certain amount of food grains
once in a year. This process of exchange is called ‘Baite’, we
regularly used to have bhajans in the sopa of our wada. The
honorable personalities of our village used to visit our home
regularly. There was a early morning worshipping culture
in our family. We used to pray Shubhamkaroti Kalyanam in
the evening. Our aunties used to light up the lamps and
chimnis. We together used to have a good conversations
with each other. Our parents used to share every interesting
information with us. We used to have dinner together. All
kids of the house used to make a huge round for dinner. We
had a habit of praying before having dinner.
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