Style1½ inches thick (3.75 cm) Product Details Artist grade canvas, archival inks, wooden stretcher bars, and UVB protective coating
AvailablityUsually ships within five business days. ArtistMihir Shah CollectionKashmir
Description A hill women's life is extremely busy from early morning to late evening and sometimes even till late at night. They work side by side with men in agriculture and their role is as important in the field as at home. Women are constantly at work, breaking earth, transplanting, weeding, reaping, pounding or carrying head loads of fodder, firewood, manure, water, grain, flour and in the building season when men build terrace walls and terrace the fields, they break earth-clods and excavate stones and carry them. After house hold chores of looking after the children and cooking, women are usually away from their homes most of the day collecting grass, leaves or firewood or tending animals in the forests. On moonlit nights at harvest time they often work in the fields after meals past midnight. Besides carrying the produce to her home, she has to spread it for drying on the roof or the yard to protect it from early decomposition. In horticulture, besides the pruning and plucking she is also mainly responsible for grading and packing of apples. The rearing of animals, milking of cows and buffaloes, preparing butter milk and butter and later ghee are all performed by women. Collection of the dung of cattle, dumping it and later carrying it to the field to be used as manure is the woman's job. Winter and rainy season are a period of inactivity in the fields. But even then, women spin, weave or knit and makes mats and baskets. Some even help their mates in chopping wood. This inequitable division of labour among men and women is surprising. Probably when agriculture was first started in the hills, man engaged himself in the more intensive tasks like that of cleaning the fields and constructing terrace walls. His wife must have assisted him sowing and harvesting the crop. Later this division of labour became more or less fixed, even when the work of cleaning and terracing did not engage him to that extent. Hill women are not inhibited in her work or behaviour. She mai
Mihir Shah, Mumbai Member Since June 2007 Artist Statement Another enthusiast amongst millions others who have discovered the joy of photography is what I believed myself to be. But, as time passed, the no. of clicks on my Canon Powershot digital camera jumped into thousands and as I started losing count of various nooks and corners of India that I had visited, I realized that I had a passion. A passion for capturing moments, storing memories of interesting people and mesmerizing locations that I had come across. It went beyond mere photography. For me, my camera became my view of the world as well as a well documented memory of the part that I had played in it.
Still a student by profession, this mass communication graduate is seeking to pursue new adventures and visit more spectacular places on planet earth. In the meanwhile, he’ll keep clicking.