DHIKI

DHIKI is our very own manual grinder!!! It is used to grind paddy, rice, dry chillies and etc so mostly it is used to make powder goods from dry grains or plants. There is a defined area for "DHIKI" in a house usually in the backyard. The area is first cleaned to grind and requires two people. It is a very slow process and requires enormous amount of energy and effort.

"DHIKI" is made up of wood and works like lever but instead used for grinding. The framework consists of fulcrum having two pillars on each side, an effort area (where one of the person stands on the long thick plank of wood making effort at every interval ), a long and thick plank of horizontal wood which has a small vertical extension that goes into a hole made on ground. It is in this hole that the grains or dry chillies are kept to transform them into powder. The other person usually sits at this area to keep grains in the hole in coordination with the effort applied on the other side. They very well be cautious and communicating as a wrong movement especially in the side of the person keeping grains can cause an accident of grinding their own hand.