Do you remember the song from the movie ‘Sounds of Music’, these are a few of my favourite things? Well, summers make us feel just the same way. Of course there is the sweat, hot weather and miserable dust but then there are things that you can only enjoy in this weather. If you are still grumbling on how you couldn’t sleep last night due to power cut, here’s something to cheer you up.
The fragrance of flowers They call me ‘Champa’
The sober, sugary, exhilarating smell of flowers especially of the Champa flower infuses each spot of the backyard or blows to the nostrils as you stand along the garden. People relish this aroma on their evening walk. Man, what a blissful fragrance!
The jingle of the Koel Bird The nightingale
Koel is considered as the nightingale of India, maybe it looks ordinary and as colourless water but it has the most astonishing voice. The mellifluous, melancholic jingle of the Koel begins off in flattering pitches and then go up to a highly amusing sounding upsurge.
Rooha-Roooha Roohafza Rosy, sugary drink
To beat the heat, Roohafza comes as our saviour. Roohafza is yet one of the core of Indian summer drinks which you can relish by sipping with milk or blending with mint and lime. Heading for a drink? I bet so.
Fruity seasoned mangoes I need mangoes right now.
An Indian can tell you the real yearn of mangoes. When I was I child I used to steal mangoes from fruit stalls as I was so in love with those, don’t take me wrong that was my childhood *Wink*. Mangoes fulfill the summer needs of an Indian; we even love to smell those juicy, sweet, pleasing mangoes. Yummy, they truly are.
The joy of taking bath every second hour My third bath of the day
Every second hour we rush to our bathroom to take a refreshing bath. This is the best beat-heat formula as water thrashes the warms of sun and we feel cool and revitalizing. Ahh… These blissful drops of cool water, I love it.
No smell can match earth’s aroma No less than a feel of heaven
With the earliest drops of rain on the desiccated, splintered, scorching hot earth; it smells like paradise.
7. Summer has arrived, so has all ice-cream sellers
A scoop of Belgium chocolate please
What we crave the most? An ice-cream obviously. We charge to those roadside ice-cream sellers, and eat three- four lick-lollies at least. Ice-cream is the real heat buster and an Indian loves to lick that frosty, syrupy treat especially in sizzling summer.
Author’s Name: Pranay Gautam
