A Trip to Janapada Loka..

The Trip to Janapada Loka was on 13th July 2019. I had woke up at 6:30am. After finishing my daily chores, the time was around 7:05am. I watched the cartoon movie 'Slugterra' for 15 minutes while mother was feeding the porridge to me. My brother woke up at 7:15am. After my brother got ready, my father, my brother and I set to school at 7:45am. By the time, we reached school, the time was 8:10am. By then, all my fellow 7th grade students, who have enrolled their names for the trip had boarded the bus, I quickly rushed and then boarded the bus. After a span of 10 minutes, the teachers had changed 5 of us, Niayathi, Anish, Athulya, Vindhya & myself, to the other bus. The teachers in the other bus were our Hindi teacher, Amanullah Sir and our sports teacher Chinna Raju Sir. There were 93 students in total who had enrolled for the trip. We started our journey at 8:20am and reached Janapada Loka at 10:20am. It took 18 minutes for us to get down, form a line and for the teachers to collect the ticket.

The landscape was marshy and scented with earth. There was a large gate outside with a face of god at the middle and that face was supposedly a latch. The opened the gate and what a breath taking sight was it! Many animals like goose, garden snake, rabbits and dogs.

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Exciting Bus Journey

Excited Friends

Pottery Making

Lokamatha Mandir

When we entered the place, it was full of miniature models and Ferris wheels. We mostly thought that the place was going to be full of scientific models and science in daily life. But when we entered the place, half of what we thought was right and half is wrong. It showed the science in daily life of the olden days. There were full of multi coloured lights that signified each project, the structure of Lokamatha Mandir was more like a Dome. For a second, I thought that it was like the Dome of the Taj Mahal. But it was an echoing dome unlike Taj Mahal. There were one thousand five hundred artifacts, about 100 to 200 manuscripts and about 70 to 90 religious quote descriptions. There were many pots and stoves for cooking made up of mud. There were even many remains of foreign authors unfinished works like one of Charles Dickens. There were many walking sticks, rat traps, Agricultural Tools, Bucket balance, weights and objects for specific items like butter balance, oil tube, objects that shield us from different conditions of weather like rain cover was found.

Chitra Kuteera (Picture Museum)

It consists of pictures of Archers. tribes, Dance, forms (folk and classical dances of Karnataka Articles, pictures and books of famous personalities and sculptures of different occupations in various branches and instruments.

Loka Mahal

It consisted of sculptures made up of different materials, showcases of cultural arts, dress code and rule prescription followed during the olden times, samples of fabrics and different kinds of matrimonial goods and books about matrimonial relationship, weapons (both modern and old). Different kinds of lamb-stands and bearers, Puja articles, cooking articles etc. Then a guide came and then started an entire choir of kannada songs.

Chairman of Janapada Loka was Nagagowda IAS officer, MScl, who bought all the artifacts

I had even seen the process of pots that mankind had used in the olden days and I bought a sample pot for myself. We learnt that there were four kinds of instruments- maoselum instruments, flute instruments, string instruments and leather instruments. Angada mam had taught us about the different kinds of trees found over there like silver oak trees that are usually found in hills and used for furnitures.