It's the rainy season and the weather keeps fluctuating between hot, humid, pleasant, cold, lovely, and gloomy. This season brings back a lot of memories of the good childhood times.
The spluttering of mustard seeds as mom prepared tadka or the hot oil hissing when the pakoda batter was fried, hot cups of bournvita, vicks massage for sniffly noses, wading through dirty pools of water and getting scolded, making paper boats...I can go on with these nostalgic memories.
What I also distinctly remember is the combination of ingu-bella (hing+jaggery) that my dad used to religiously make for all the family members every year at the onset of monsoon. We were supposed to eat this concoction for avoiding the plethora of monsoon ailments. It was a ritual we used to look forward to. Every year, dad would gather all the kids (we used to have a joint family), and sit down to commence the task of mixing hing and jaggery. He would break the jaggery and then pound it to a fine powder after mixing the hing in it. This mixture would then be rolled out into small marble sized balls and passed around for everybody to eat. Hmm! what fun!
I look back at these memories and wonder if my son will experience any of these customs. We have all grown up, moved on and this ritual has been long forgotten. But, even now whenever dad is around at this time, he makes sure we have our dose of ingu-bella :-).
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Monsoon Memories
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11 comments:
good post.
Yeah Isn't a pity that we always say that if our kids will have the same traditions we had when we were small.
When my daughter trim her nails in the evening telling her if you grandmother is here she would give you a good scolding....
thanks! yeah i perfectly agree with u..our kids are deprived of so many customs we knew, but then they are also exposed to a lot many things we weren't..Hmm..nothing's perfect i guess :-))
Very sweet memories, Anu!
Hey Anu great post it was a good read, that is a lovedly picture where is it taken of?
Nupur: Thanks :)
Jeena: Thanks :) This is taken in Coonoor. Its a lovely hill station in Tamil Nadu, India.
It looks very beautiful. :)
Hey, I heard about a bad monsoon in india this time...but your pic says something else!!:) I'm happy that being in Northern CA and with a mountain view out of my balcony, I don't miss these beautiful seasons so much!!
Jeena: Thanks again :-))
Mansi: The monsoon has been pretty bad in some parts. This pic was taken last year when the monsoon had almost ended. Due to global warming the seasons are kinda weird now...but still beautiful :-)
hey which place is this? seems very familiar to me!
very nice post. Really enjoyed reading. I have one article on my blog on the same topic hope you like reading it.
http://www.caleidoscope.in/nostalgiphilia/reliving-memories-of-monsoon.html
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