Calamus

Summer is on its way out. As the weather cools down, children get ready for a new school year, and monsoons. Beside the fact that I am no fan of diseases and dirty puddles I hate to see summer go for one very deliciously sweet reason - MANGOES! Himayat We went overboard with mangoes this summer. We more than made up for the depravity of the last six years. From super markets to cart vendors, from farmers markets to mango orchards from vegetable shops to even more vegetable shops, why, even online! We bought mangoes from everywhere! If they were available, we would still be getting them, but alas, summer lasts only for three short months. But nevertheless I am grateful to have had my heart's fill. Few fruits have such variety like the mango. They come in a horde of sizes & shapes, smooth & wrinkled, in various hues of green, yellow, orange & red. Long, thin, pointy, round, stout & tiny; the shapes are very many.  But they all have one thing in common - t