Houses made up of clay are excellent for health. Indigenous piped houses provide natural cooling in a blazing summer.
Change is the law of the world. At that time, there was a development in the villages adorned with houses with old pipes and instead terraced houses and buildings are build. The village is also now blending into the urban imitation. But still in many villages the houses with the roofs of pipes are still there and giving the feeling of air conditioner. The villages in Kutch are also becoming high-tech now but there are still houses with pipes in many villages, which preserves the ancient tradition and reveals the ancient culture.
Summer heat and scorching loo have a profound effect on cement-concrete roofed houses as well as those with exotic tubing.
While houses with country tubes provide natural cooling in a blazing summer, as a result houses with desi pipes are visible in many rural areas of the district.
However, houses with pipes have to be cleaned every year, means the tubes have to be operated.
It is difficult to live in a bungalow made of cement and concrete without an AC-cooler. Then in the houses with pipes, the temperature is cooler even without fan and Ac.
Surprisingly, in the winter, the houses with country pipes, Even among the decorated bungalows, there are still some villages where as yet the buildings of the ancient civilized monument are standing in ruins.
Netra (Mataji’s) village of Nakhtrana taluka is in a dilapidated condition as a souvenir in other villages besides this one.
Compilation: Dineshbhai Dayani, Nakhtrana.