एक आम दिन

21st June 2023

What am I to say about a day that I awoke to with the thought of raw mangoes.
दिन आम ही तो था ।

Totapuri mangoes sitting patiently in my fridge called out to me in my sleep. Today was the day! Their imminent ripening lingered in the air. I had been churning the recipe of आम पन्ना in my head for a while now.

The grinding and the mixing seemed a mighty ambitious ordeal, so I prolonged it until a faint ghost like yellow signified the start of the end of their rawness. I decided, I will make it worth all the effort.

One sip of this sharp, spicy drink, to swill through the swelling, sticky, salty song of summer.

Alas! The song ended before I began.

A strange summer that turned into a rain shower at 6 AM, washing away my mango dreams.
Definitely not a day for a tropical drink.

But waters do not waver this wuthering mind. And so I set to task.

Two hours, ten Ranveer Brar monologues later, I was left with mush that was better off chewed as a fruit than gulped as a drink.

What else can i say,

दिन आम ही तो था ।