A TRADITIONAL OUTDOOR VILLAGE KITCHEN IN PUNJAB

An old, retired military captain proudly displays his grand daughter in his large courtyard on a Mid February Sunday afternoon. The open kitchen in the background is mostly used for cooking in the summer, using wood burned with a mixture of sun dried cow dung, mud and straw. In the monsoon season and the winter the food is cooked in the indoor kitchen either with charcoal fire or on a kerosene stove. This large house belong to the old captain his artist wife and their four grown up sons. The house has two large bedrooms, a lounge, a back house and a room on the roof top. The open space on the roof top is used for sleeping in the summer. The bed in the photo is made of wood and jute string.