Hark! The Mango-mania's back..!
Assalamu Alaikum dear friends..!! The earth is baked.. The Sun is blazing... It's fire, fiery fire everywhere..! And well, we know IT'S SUMMER!!! Every house yells for A.C... Every parched tongue craves for water... Every sun-dried soul searches the water-hole.. It's water, watery water everywhere...! Moms and home-making Papas, latch their babies in their air-conditioned closets or in their console-designed android wares.. Whereas the employed Papas and Mommas are, nevertheless, the destined cave-beings who ought to be burning their daylight at the pressure-sealed tension chambers called 'office'... It is this season of heat and electrified intensity, that brings us the fruit of paradise--MANGO! This fruit has had a very long history in Indian households..(no doubt it is from there that it derives the name).. "MAANGAI"="MANGO"..! Mangifera Indica (the scientific name), a native to eastern India, was believed to be carried to the Arab...