In memory of Hajari Singh Kanwar
एक खेत।तीन पीढ़ियाँ।
One field.
Three generations.
Named for my grandfather, Hajari Singh Kanwar, the civil engineer who came home from Patiala and gave Hudithal its first piped drinking water. Tended now by my father, Ajay Kanwar, who has kept the family's land for over thirty years.
This page is how we honor them, and how we share what the soil gives back.
The Grandfather
ठाकुर हजारी सिंह कंवरThe engineer who came home.
Hajari Singh Kanwar was born in Hudithal, walked out to study civil engineering at the Thapar Institute in Patiala, and walked back with a single quiet ambition: to give his village clean water.
He led the project that brought a potable water pipeline to Hudithal. Every household that drinks safe water in the village today drinks from the work he started. He did not give up the family land. He passed it, along with his discipline, to his son.
This farm carries his name because he is the reason the soil is still ours.
The Father
अजय कंवरThe son who kept the land.
My father, Ajay Kanwar, has run the family farm at Hudithal for over thirty years. He chose the land. He keeps it.
Father walks his fields most mornings before the sun is hot. He chooses the seeds. He watches the monsoon. He harvests the wheat in the cool hours of April. Every season is a partnership with the soil, and every season the soil answers back.
What you see on this page, the mustard, the wheat, this year's black wheat, is his work. The fact that it now reaches your kitchen is just the newest chapter of it.
The Land
हमारी मिट्टी।The same soil.
Hudithal sits on the alluvial plain between the Yamuna and the Aravalli, in Hathin tehsil, Palwal district, eighty kilometres south of Delhi.
This is where Hajari Singh played as a boy. Where Ajay walks every morning. Where, this year, an unusual purple-black wheat is ripening alongside the regular crop. The soil does not change. What is grown on it does.
This Year, On These Fields
इस साल की फसल।काला गेहूँ · Black Wheat.
This year, alongside the regular wheat and mustard, my father grew a pigmented variety developed at the National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute, Mohali. Anthocyanin-rich, naturally purple-black, not genetically modified. We have a small first-season inventory. If you would like to taste what is growing on the family's fields this April, here is how.
Black Wheat (whole grain), 2025–26 Rabi harvest
NABI MG-11 variety. Hudithal, Palwal. Pre-paid only. Free shipping in Delhi NCR above ₹999.
UPI: pay@hajarifarms (placeholder). Razorpay Payment Page links coming soon.
A Note From The Grandson
हजारी जी की विरासत।In Hajari Ji's legacy.
I never met my grandfather in the way I met my father. But every village home in Hudithal that turns on a tap and gets clean water has met him. Every season my father stands in this field, he is in some way standing with him.
This page is small. The legacy is not. Thank you for visiting it.
Abhay Kanwar, grandson