Kindle Notes & Highlights
to the school and back, stopping en route to make friends with frogs and grasshoppers, dragonflies, ladybirds and other fascinating insects. We would watch with wonder as mango trees bloomed, catch the whiff as jackfruit trees sprouted buds that would in course of time transform into giant fruits, and eat the crunchy tender cucumbers that farmers would let us pluck.
Another life lesson: Never carry personal relationships into one’s professional life – a credo I’ve lived by.
That’s when he would fashion toy watches and spectacles, balls and snakes, windmills and trumpets using coconut fronds. Leaves, flowers and fruits of wild plants would transform into toys that would forever fascinate us.
Life, the elders would know, Is all about remembering the smells, The sights and sounds of the past.
half a Malayalam broadsheet artfully shaped into a cone and tied with a jute string.
