Dausa : A farmer family in Dausa immersed the ashes of their mother in the fields instead of the Ganga. In fact, Kishni Devi, wife of Kishori Patel, died on November 30 at the age of 85 in Thikaria village of Sikrai subdivision. He was very fond of farming and had planted many fruit and shade trees. She wanted to make her ashes a part of the same soil whose food and water she used to feed her family. In such a situation, Kishni Devi’s sons Jaganmohan and Vimal Kumar, with the help of family and relatives, immersed the ashes of their mother as per her mother’s wish by running water in the fields. He told that his mother had a special love for farming and she used to say that after her death, my ashes should be immersed in the fields by running water.
Mother’s entire life was spent in farming. Therefore, this initiative has been taken to fulfill the mother’s wish. Son IRS, grandson IAS Dharam Singh said that Kishni Devi was a strong-willed and hardworking woman. Along with farming, he also taught the children of the family. His younger son Vimal Kumar is a senior officer in the Indian Revenue Service (IRS) and grandson Parikshit is an officer in the Indian Administrative Service (IAS). While immersing the ashes in the fields, the family members said that they are not against the tradition but against the show. People indulge in rituals and wasteful expenditure in the name of show off. If expenditure has to be made then it should be spent on educating daughters, because only educated people try to improve the society.
