Hymn for the weekend

Hey Guys! I've totally been lagging on my blog from the past couple of days... but that's all about to change. My project is finally coming to an end and I've been working on it like crazyyyy!!
So time to update you guys about my latest project work..:D
As you guys know that I've taken the shoe house as my micro area further i had to study the place and look for a design intervention. Soo here first have a look at my sketch

So thats a rough sketch of my micro area ( shoe house) if you want to see the real image just scroll down :)


I'm sure you guys are curious to know why have i taken this particular place as my micro study area.  So before moving on lemme just brief you a lil about it.

WHAT? 

It is a shoe house outside the mandir where all the people before visiting the temple take their shoes off.

WHY?

It is a belief to remove shoes outside the mandir.

1.To keep the mandir neat and clean and obey the culture.

2. Shoes and chappals are made of leather which is made of animal skin. Thus it is said to remove shoes outside.

WHO?

There are people who sit outside the mandir just to collect shoes and they call themselves as sevak.

WHERE?

These people sit outside the mandir in an open area on mattresses.

WHEN?

From morning 7am till evening 7pm and sometimes till late night.

So after going and talking to few people, I went and talked to the man sitting outiside the mandir who collects shoes.
His name is soorat. He works as a sevak in the temple, lives in pahadganj and comes almost everyday along with his wife who also works in the temple. He sits outside the shoe house to collect shoes and as he's doing seva for the people he doesn't ask for money but people pay him voluntarily. Since childhood he's been doing this work and has a strong belief in Hanuman Ji.Customers come within every 5-10mins and in an hour he earns a maximum of rs600-700. He told me that he has made tokens numbered from 1-50 so he gives one token to the customer and keeps the other with himself for his convience. On tuesdays and saturdays their is a lot of crowd and more people like him sit outside the mandir to collect shoes so he faces alot of competition.

But aren't you guys wondering that why do these people sit outside and not in the shoe house which is provided to them??

The reason why they don't sit inside the shoe house is because

they are doing business in the name of seva.

Also they fear competiton as many people like them are doing the same job.

People are ignorant                                about this and they are taking advantage of that!!

So I'm sure you guys got a little idea of where my project is heading too!!

In my next blogpost i'll be sharing with you the design intervention which i've thought of.. So stay tuned see you guys very sooon!! :D

                                                                                                                            Sketches made by me