Interview with Sanjay Kumar

(Q1) INTERVIEWER: Would you please introduce yourself.

(A1) SANJAY KUMAR: My good name is Sanjay Kumar but people call me Dabbu.

(Q2) INTERVIEWER: So when did your family come to this area?

(A2) SANJAY KUMAR: Well, I don't know.

(Q3) INTERVIEWER: Were you born here?

(A3) SANJAY KUMAR: Yes, yes.

(Q4) INTERVIEWER: And what's your age?

(A4) SANJAY KUMAR: It's about twenty-eight, yes twenty-eight.

(Q5) INTERVIEWER: In twenty-eight years have you seen changes in Arampur.

(A5) SANJAY KUMAR: In Arampur-yes, a lot of change.

(Q6) INTERVIEWER: Like what?

(A6) SANJAY KUMAR: Like, well-why don't you ask about something specific.

(Q7) INTERVIEWER: Like various kinds of facilities-like electricity, roads, drinking water.

(A7) SANJAY KUMAR: Everything is exactly the way it was.

(Q8) INTERVIEWER: So, there was electricity available in your childhood.

(A8) SANJAY KUMAR: Yes there was.

(Q9) INTERVIEWER: Ok.

BACKGROUND VOICE: It isn't here now-where's the electricity been up to now?

(A9) SANJAY KUMAR: Well, there was electricity in my childhood and we have it now.

(Q10) INTERVIEWER: In your childhood, where did people get their water?

(A10) SANJAY KUMAR: In my childhood, well in my childhood there was a hand pump at my house from the very beginning.

(Q11) INTERVIEWER: And in your childhood did everyone have brick and concrete homes?

(A11) SANJAY KUMAR: Yes, well some houses were made of unfired brick and soil and others of solid brick. Yes, and our home from the beginning until now was always brick.

(Q12) INTERVIEWER: And the roads, were they paved or dirt?

(A12) SANJAY KUMAR: Some were dirt but most now are being paved, gradually.

(Q13) INTERVIEWER: And in your childhood did everyone have a radio?

(A13) SANJAY KUMAR: At first, no.

(Q14) INTERVIEWER: And now?

(A14) SANJAY KUMAR: Nowadays, just about everyone has them.

(Q15) INTERVIEWER: And televisions?

(A15) SANJAY KUMAR: Well, I really don't know about televisions but nowadays everyone has them.

(Q16) INTERVIEWER: Have there been any social changes?

(A16) SANJAY KUMAR: Most certainly, yes.

(Q17) INTERVIEWER: Well please tell us what, in your view, has changed in society?

(A17) SANJAY KUMAR: Well, yes there have been changes but ask something specific, Brother.

(Q18) INTERVIEWER: So, what's this neighborhood called?

(A18) SANJAY KUMAR: This neighborhood is called " Daiganj ."

(Q19) INTERVIEWER: And how did your family come here?

(A19) SANJAY KUMAR: My father was working in Dalmiya-he had a store there. So our family was living there.

(Q20) INTERVIEWER: So, you opened a shop here.

(A20) SANJAY KUMAR: Yes, yes.

(Q21) INTERVIEWER: And who lives here in Daiganj ?

(A21) SANJAY KUMAR: Well a lot of people live here in Daiganj -any name you can mention, Hindus, Muslims, all kinds of people.