In the thick of the Mango Season!

Everyone is talking mangoes these days. Conversation nowa­days centers solely on the King of fruits in its various incarnations. Eavesdrop on two householders chatting, and you can be sure to count four Alphonsos, three Mancurados, and even a Mussarado, popping up in the discussion, all within the space of two minutes.
The Mango season has arrived.
At the start of the season, the man staying next door went to the market and bought mangoes worth five hundred rupees.
How many would that make? All of one single golden yellow specimen.
Extravagant, would you say? Not at all! For this was no ordinary fruit, but one of the first crop to arrive at the stalls, captured after a no-holds barred fight with six other hopefuls in the marketplace.
He took it home and cut it in three pieces, a slice apiece for himself and his wife, and the central portion for his seven-year-old daughter.
For a while, silence reigned as five hundred rupees’ worth of fruit paused for long moments in the mouth, then made its way down the gullet to find temporary residence in the stomach.....
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Sample the rest of the servings in Mango Mood by Sharmila Kamat, Rupa Publications, India



Available at:

http://www.amazon.com/Mango-Mood-Sharmila-Kamat/dp/8129117223/ref=la_B004KQMSCI_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1338349497&sr=1-2

and at:
http://www.rupapublications.co.in/client/Book/MANGO-MOOD.aspx


Some reviews here:

http://fachcha.com/books/4865/

and here:

http://thehungryreader.wordpress.com/2011/01/23/mango-mood-by-sharmila-kamat/