- Chetandas used to teach students.
- When he was nine years old, he lived in Dera Gazikhan, Pakistan.
- One day, his father told him that they had to leave their house and village.
- He took a train to Delhi with his Baba, Amma, younger brothers and sisters.
- Many people were moving as the country was divided into India and Pakistan.
- For some time, they stayed in a camp and then moved to tents put up in huge ground.
- One day, his father said that they had been given some land in Sohna village.
- They planned to build their house there.
- Baba dug soil and the children quickly filled the pans and passed it to their Amma.
- Gudiya and Amma mixed husk into it and Baba put up the walls.
- His mother also coated the floor with mixture made of cow dung and mud. It was to keep insects away.
- For the roof, Baba made a frame by joining strips of wood and fixed it on the four walls.
- They also put branches of neem and keekar trees on the frame to keep the termites away from the wood.
- When Chetandas became a young man, he thought of adding a new room into the house.
- The new room was built using iron and cement.
- The walls were made of unbaked bricks. Unbaked bricks were easy to maintain as they have to be just whitewashed once in a year.
- They also built a kitchen in the courtyard, with a mud chulha.
- In those days, people used to go out to their fields for toilet.
- When his son was about to get married, they again renovated the house.
- This time, they used baked bricks for walls, lintel for roof and marble chips and cement for floor.
- In toilet, they put pipes to take away the waste.
- In kitchen, they replaced chulha with gas stove
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