~On the wake of a summer afternoon a rare breeze from the extincted west side paddy fields sucked a nostalgic feeling from my heart though my throat. My heart pounded with fleeting glimpses of the grassland, mud, mango stains, cashew nut stains, smell of jack fruit, waving paddy fields, pond fishes, tail waving squirrels, running mongoose, snakes and the whistle of the wind talking to the head banging trees.18 years back...Waiting in a lazy summer afternoon for something or someone to get into some thrill, a bombing sound struck my ears between the sounds of murmuring leaves and whistle of wind! Suddenly I hear the sound of running footsteps crushing the dry leaves. It was time for me to take a short cut. I ran though my back doors to jump off the fence.
I am not surprised to see the usual rivals wandering and searching with their legs to look under the dry leaves, until one guy bend down to take what all were there for! The guy told "boy, its only a cashew fruit!". He bit the fruit and twisted off the nut like taking off pin from a bomb.
Suddenly a falling sound rubbing the leaves was starting from the top and everyone was getting ready for the next operation!This time the target hit right next to me.I took it and gently massaged the fallen juicy mango like a teen boob and bit off the nut from the top and started sucking the juice!
Sitting and waiting for a mango to fall on a small rock with a boundary of mango trees on south, a forest of cashew trees, jack fruits and bamboos on east, a whistling breeze from the west side paddy fields, and the rivals from the north in the battleground of falling mangoes is a wonderful nostalgic feeling I recall on my summer days!Just a smell of a rotten cashew fruit or mango takes me back to that surroundings in the summer time.
Now, the information technology and the upcoming urban civilization has took off the greenery from my valley and the paddy fields are now took over by the real estate mafias! All my friends are now on their way to extinction, and I rarely see few of the mongoose, snakes and squirrels in few bushes that will soon be concreted!
I am afraid, that the next generation can see only through internet that "How Green Was their Valley!~
