Ahmedabad, 3 February 2012

In the photo here are two Dangi tribal girls.

Gujarat Tourism brand ambassador who is on visit to south Gujarat’s tribal district Dang, found these two girls the cutest little ladies, and had a photo shoot with them for his blog.

“And … how absolutely one can fall in love with the beauty that abounds in the shape and size of the two most here – Ah !! Just had to get a picture with them. The thorn between two roses. And no there is no need to refer to the much made popular adage to this, by none other than the Mahatma – ‘ a rose between two thorns !!’. The whole action being borrowed from that famous photograph at the then Viceregal House, or now the Rashtrapati Bhavan, of the last Viceroy Lord Mountbatten, Jinnah and Gandhi, “Shri Bachchan said on his blog.

“But seriously though aren’t they, the two roses above, just the cutest little ladies you ever saw ? How quickly the female gender matures and acquires lady like demeanor. They progress faster in the brain too than the male, and I am told start to speak as they grow from birth to greater age, much before the male. Now … there can be many little asides which I am sure many among you would be desperately trying to manufacture at this juncture. But I would seriously consider you refrain,” he added.

Dang is nearly 100% tribal district of Gujarat. While shooting for Gujarat Tourism TV ads here, Shri Bachchan blogged, “sitting with the tribals, listening to their talk on how they lead their life, the food that they cook, the artwork that they adorn their homes with, has always been a most educative and interesting topic. Their simplicity of thought and word and their undisturbed life style despite modern inventions abounding around them, is by itself a great learning. Change their environment and they shall perish. They live by and for the soil they inhabit, and nothing shall effect change in their lives that they lead … Steadfast as they are … they shall never distort or change even the way they dress or ornament themselves.”

Shri Bachchan blogged that he wanted to put photos of tribal jewelry but internet connection was untrustworthy.

On seeing the Warli art on the wall of tribal house, Shri Bachchan said how judiciously they use the triangle in every form without losing the reality of the image and how simply they interpret their everyday life !!

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