In memory of Hajari Singh Kanwar
एक खेत।तीन पीढ़ियाँ।
One field.
Three generations.
Named for our grandfather, Hajari Singh Kanwar, a civil engineer who served Punjab and Haryana for thirty-seven years, and never let go of this land. Tended now by our father, Ajay Kanwar, who has kept it growing for over three decades.
From the two of us, his grandsons, this page is how we honor them, and how we share what the soil gives back.
The Grandfather
ठाकुर हजारी सिंह कंवरThe engineer who never left the land.
Hajari Singh Kanwar was born in Hudithal on 11 August 1942. He left for the Thapar Institute in Patiala in the late 1950s, came back with a civil engineering degree, and joined Punjab government service. When Haryana was carved out of Punjab on 1 November 1966, he moved with the new state, and stayed for the next thirty-four years, retiring as Sub-Divisional Engineer (Civil) at the Haryana Civil Secretariat in Chandigarh.
Among the projects of his long career, the one Hudithal remembers most is the piped drinking-water supply he helped bring to the village in his early years. The fields he had played in as a boy now had clean water to drink alongside.
He did not give up the land. He passed it, along with his discipline, to his son.
The Father
अजय कंवरThe son who kept the land.
Our father, Ajay Kanwar, has tended the family farm at Hudithal for over three decades, alongside our mother Alka. 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 and our mother's work. The fact that it now reaches your kitchen is just the newest chapter of it.
Portrait of Ajay Kanwar
— coming soon
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, our father Ajay 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 Grandsons
हजारी जी की विरासत।In Hajari Ji's legacy.
We were lucky to know our grandfather. Every season our 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 & Aaksh Kanwar, grandsons