Sweet memories of sweet little age... we were lucky to live in clean environment...nothing was artificial or fake Children now have to face neck to neck competition.. that too not clean ...just rat race with lot of politics within.... i really feel bad about
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Samir Mehta <samirmeht...@gmail.com>wrote: > 'Now all these are rarity as children prefers > packaged eatables from stores. ' > > Very true Mani ji. > They also do not play (with) marbles or gilli-danda any longer, have > fancy 'uniforms' and shoes for the football, cricket etc..That's not > all, they carry 2 or more (tennis) racquets when they come to play at > the gymkhana! (carrying extra racquets for a match is understandable). > > Coming back to Karonda.. we used pluck and eat the fruit straight of > the tree, had one in our old house. Another favorite was (jungli) > badam I am almost willing to bet that these simple pleasures of life > have bypassed our current city bred youngsters (different in the small > town / rural areas). > > Regards, > > Samir > > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: mani nair <mani.na...@gmail.com> > Date: Jan 10, 5:03 pm > Subject: Fruits & Vegetables Week: Carissa carandas, the Karonda > To: efloraofindia > > > Nice capture Gurcharan ji. We use the unripe fruit to make pickles > and the > ripe one is very sweet called "Kali maina". During our childhood > days, we > used to eat lots of this fruits mixed with salt as it was easily > available > outside our school gate. Along with we also used to get lots of > Carambolas > and salted tamarind. Now all these are rarity as children prefers > packaged eatables from stores. > > Regards, > > Mani. > -- Smita raskar 308 Disha Residency, Salaiwada,Sawantwadi Mob.09422379568
