My father’s hut was located almost in the centre of the village. It was common that time to build huts and houses with a common space in the middle. Probably one acre of land was left for common use and huts were in the periphery of the same. Behind each house there used to be a small open area where kitchen work happened except during rainy seasons. Same open space was used by women folks for taking bath. The bathroom was nothing more than eight to ten square foot of open space with five to six feet high mud wall around. The opening was generally covered by some torn off or ragged old cloth which struggled to keep the view of inside obstructed. The same place was used by women folks for privacy. Open fields were the only place for attending to nature’s call for everyone in the village, rich and poor alike. It was not considered to be good and clean to have toilet inside the house.  Bigger huts had the luxury of having their own bathing space inside the compound and were completely covered. In some cases it used to be cemented as well with hand-pump and enough space for taking bath, washing vessels and also doing all other house hold chorus. Mud and wooden logs were mainly used to build huts but some bigger one belonging to better status people used bricks and cement also. My grand father had a bigger and better hut with hand-pump and bathing space inside the house. Kitchen was also spacious and had its own grainary where several big earthen pots were filled with wheat and rice. Mud huts with thatched roofs were very good for insulating heat during scorching summer and provide relief from intense cold. Rains however used to be a damp affair and very inconvenient. Another advantage of his house was that the new railway station build by the British government was only six kilometers away and it also had a train plying from Gorakhpur town which passed through this station once in a day.