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Food isn’t cooked in any house in Gujarat’s Chandanki village.
Instead, the entire village’s food is prepared in one place, where everyone gathers to sit and eat together.
If you are wondering why, the reason lies in it being the village’s antidote to loneliness.
With most of its youngsters emigrating to cities in India and abroad, Chandanki was left with a large number of senior citizens.
So a group of villagers started a community kitchen to help the elders get some much-needed rest.
This started the tradition of the village cooking in a shared kitchen and eating meals together in a solar-powered AC hall.
This has now also become a place where everyone gathers to share their joys and sorrows.
In fact, Poonambhai Patel, the village sarpanch, left his home in Ahmedabad and moved to Chandanki after spending 20 years in New York.
As he says, “Our Chandanki is a village that lives for each other.”
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