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Bad Affects of Modernism As the human mankind has progressed, human life has become more and more comfortable. Scientific inventions have made it easy for the people to live even in those areas where geographical conditions are not suitable for the survival of human kind. But this advancement has also affected some sections of the society adversely. With the revolution in information technology the whole world has become a global village. And with it English has become the global language. People have their reach to every corner of the world. It has threatened the existence of the natural existence of the tribal people. Some tribes have even disappeared and with them their languages too have disappeared. It is being predicted that after some time some of the regional Indian languages will also disappear as their will be a very few people who will be having the pure knowledge of their language. Scientific inventions have made some people jobless too. India has been badly affected by it. Indian society is divided into casts. Every caste has been defined by its profession. As ‘julaha’ (weavers) used to weave clothes but they have adopted some other professions. There is another caste which is known by the name of ‘ghumaar’ means potter. The people of this particular caste used to make earthen utensils.  But in the modern time they too have almost lost their jobs.

Refrigerator Vs Pitcher In the summer season everyone likes to drink cold water. But in the modern times refrigerators, water coolers and ice have taken the place of pitchers, and other earthen wares. These earthen wares were being used to cool the water for centuries. The practice of keeping water in pitchers has almost disappeared in cities and in some of the villages people still use the earthen utensils in their daily life. It is believed that the water, chilled in the pitters, is always good for the health while the water chilled by the modern methods like ‘refrigerators, coolers etc is not suitable for the human health. As refrigerators have occupied their place in every household the potters have started to loose their jobs. It main reason is that people have lost their interest in the earthen wares.

Costs Some of the potters have not lost their interest in their ancestral occupation and even take a lot of interest in it. But their children have lost their interest in this occupation. The reason is very simple; they are unable to earn enough money to make their both ends meet. Most of the ‘ghumaars’ have adopted other occupations. There are very few people who still make pottery items. This is because they have not learnt any alternative occupation.  The occupation of making earthen vessels is almost at its end. Nor the government has given them any facility to find some suitable alternative of their disappearing occupation and neither the government has taken any step to revive their dying occupation. In such conditions they have just a dark future ahead. In older times they used to get clay and dung very easily. Clay is used for making vessels while dung is used to bake them. But now investment costs have increased a lot. The clay is brought from the some far away places and then they have to transport their products to the big cities. Thus they have to bear the transportation costs too. There are many other hidden costs that have marginalized their profits. They get only 10 per cent profit from their productions.

Disappearance But in the rural sector people still prefer the pitchers. In rural sector people get the electricity supply only for 2-3 hours and in such conditions the refrigerators and water coolers have become useless boxes. But with the improvement in the electricity supply, potters will be badly affected. Because of the use of modern equipments and neglect by the government, the people of this caste are unable to keep their ‘centuries old’ occupation alive and this occupation will disappear and will become the part of history.