Mysore/Mysuru: “Pandemic or no pandemic, we don’t stop making our bamboo wares. The virus may have shaken the world but can we stop trusting God and stop worshipping Him? We make some decent earnings during this Ganesha festival season which helps us sustain for a few months. This year the sales of the traditional ‘moras’ has been a tad slow but it did pick up soon and people are back to buying them. Thanks to their faith. Goddess Gowri will protect us all. She hasn’t let us down very badly in spite of all the fears,” says Manjula, whose family from Nanjangud makes bamboo ladders, baskets and mainly moras and sets up their shop in Agrahara Circle every year during this season.
We are here since a fortnight and will pack up in a couple of days. Thankfully we are doing okay and hope to come back to some better business next year too, she adds but rues that they haven’t received any help from the Government.
