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Rustling of Leaves...

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Assalamu Alaikum my dear reader friends, Here I am, after a long pause, back to infotain you with the buzzing nuances of life... Wish you had been with me on this roller coaster "space-travel" kinda ride that I'm going through right now... Haha.. I would say it's been one hell of a ride... yes, it was exhilarating, thrilling and thoughtful! The joggers' lane at our housing society Presently I'm in Chennai . I live in a society, where lifestyle is booming with speed, valour, friendship, and a serendipity of mixed emotions. I had to go through a very long process of preparation mentally and physically to pull myself into Chennai's sizzling chromosphere!  Well, as usual I take my long evening walks inside our housing society, where I presume I have a lot of space for myself to be "me". I quietly love the experience!! Of peekabooing through the canopies and listening to the endless arpeggios of the Cuckoo.. Additionally, what enhances my s...

Hark! The Mango-mania's back..!

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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...