Resource is another of the small villages along Canal Number Two Polder, West Bank Demerara. It is home to approximately 200 people.
A visit to Resource on Phagwah Day saw truckloads of people driving along the main roadway, spraying random passersby with water and abeer.
Calls at a few of the houses went unanswered since some of the residents had already made their way down to the National Stadium.
But Hansraj was at home with his wife and a few other relatives who live in another house behind his. They were all sitting under the house chatting. His niece related that being Hindus they had played Phagwah early in the morning among themselves before tidying up and going about their usual household chores.
Hansraj is a cane farmer, who sells to the Wales Sugar Estate. Born and raised in Resource 58 years ago, he saw cane farming was his life since he was a boy.
He recalled that he had to walk to school every day, not a smooth pitched road but a rough one made of red burnt clay, all the way to the Endeavour and Commons Government School. “I used to walk barefoot,” he said. “You cry every day when you going and coming from school because you stump out a toenail. We [he and his siblings] had to meet to school for eight in the
