The way from my home to office(an hrs drive), is an interesting one and somehow makes me nostalgic.
On the way there's a tree with a kind of a citrus fruit, i dunno wat it is called in English. The fruit is a like huge unripe lemon as big as a small melon; the insides are red in color, not the blood red, but kind of a faded red and it tastes sweet and sour. You eat it with a lil salt and sugar and red chilli powder. And, there are other trees too, mango, guava etc...these remind me of lazy summer afternoons, of pickled tamarinds and raw mangoes, of fishing by smalls pond and catching crabs instead of fish.
..of the 1 -5 rupee wala cheap icecreams, of "Buddhi ke baal" or "old man's beard"(sugar candy), all of which used to be sold on the roads on thelas with bells jingling on the wheels...to alert of all and sundry like us, who had nothin to do except run after the thelawallas, with money taken from uncles/aunts/granny while our mothers slept in peace. Can I have a summer vacation again?...Koi lauta de mere beete hue din...............
On the way there's a tree with a kind of a citrus fruit, i dunno wat it is called in English. The fruit is a like huge unripe lemon as big as a small melon; the insides are red in color, not the blood red, but kind of a faded red and it tastes sweet and sour. You eat it with a lil salt and sugar and red chilli powder. And, there are other trees too, mango, guava etc...these remind me of lazy summer afternoons, of pickled tamarinds and raw mangoes, of fishing by smalls pond and catching crabs instead of fish.
..of the 1 -5 rupee wala cheap icecreams, of "Buddhi ke baal" or "old man's beard"(sugar candy), all of which used to be sold on the roads on thelas with bells jingling on the wheels...to alert of all and sundry like us, who had nothin to do except run after the thelawallas, with money taken from uncles/aunts/granny while our mothers slept in peace. Can I have a summer vacation again?...Koi lauta de mere beete hue din...............
posted by Neelanjana at 2:44 AM
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