Easi, Vadakkupattu, Approx area close to actual!

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This is Vadakkupattu Village showed on this Wiki Map, area shown is approximate, but the map is exact location of the village, consist of about 250 homes?!.

I am most interested in highlighting the beauty and uniqueness of Easi, a village within the village Originally inhabited by Subramani and his wife Sharadammal. Easi is almost the most advanced and world famous tiny hamlet within Vadakkupattu which is located about 5 miles north of the main Town Vaniyambadi, a Taluk town in Vellore Dist of Tamil Nadu. Well, there is so much to write about this Easi and the small village. One of the most unique and ground breaking event happened perhaps about 80 years ago, when some of the villagers from the Old Vadakkupattu area moved out of the old part and they moved into this Amazon forest like place, we were told that it was a place not fit for humans but animals, insects and full of grown plants of all kind. It was decorated by full of date palm trees, long and slender grown palm trees, bushes,shrubs and date plants and one of the most abundantly and rampantly grown trees were thorny Acacia, my father would quite often recall how he spent months and years in uprooting and cleaning up these trees and place to build his first and Only house that still stands pretty much 80 years of mud house legacy!. (during late 1980s and early 1990s, the roof and top was modified to modern day tiles but the walls most amazingly retained and still stand the most strongest and profoundly adorable walls I would ever see in my life time, all these modern day machined build walls are nothing when compared to Subramani and Shradammal's manually build mud mixed walls, ofcourse I believe they had put hard core stones inside the foundation?.

Easi is simply a paradise build out of an amazon forest of it's own kind in Vadakkupattu village, my grandparents and Father used say that oh boy that place was so inhabitable and simply dangerous for humans to venture as it is filled snakes and other poisonous creatures living and roaming all over. It was probably a natural area for the downstream storm water and floods from pouring rain that stagnated this area for full pledged ecosystem, a water stagnant lake full of plants and animals.

As Subramani (Bhai) and few other old folks (I guess about 4 or 6 families ONLY moved at that time to Easi) got here and cleaned up little by little area, occupied as their domicile and started building their huts. Easi grew up further from there to today, it is 80 year story. And, Today Easi is a fully developed and infact modern kind of a village with electricity, roads, sewage drains and much more....!. They even have toilets and showers, you would not believe that in India almosst half of the nations population still defaecate in the public and open lands!?. Lol...it is true!.

If Easi is a story, the earliest settler Subramani (Bhai) Sharadammal (both are no longer alvie) first family to move into Easi area, their story is simply spectacular in terms of Buddhist culture, life style, achievements and social uplifting works. Both these great human beings are no more but their legacy, their life's achievements and their brought up of their closely watched family is simply extraordinary.

The Easi part of Vadakkupattu is perhaps one of the only one or just few examples of how great things can happen in a tiny Village. I will update later about Bhai and his wife Sharadammal....!! At the moment, the almost 80 years old traditional, hand made and man made mud walls of their original home still stands much stronger and powerful than those machine made modern day walls.......Mr.Balan (a tree climber, retired due to cardiac illness) the second son of the couple occupied this traditional home and lives here in the Heart of Easi, Vadakkupattu........There are some initiatives in the pipeline to build a Buddhist Monastery and Library in Easi to honor Sharadhammal's legacy.