How to make pure rose water
Do you have nice smelling roses in your house? Then you can also make pure rose water. All it needs is a few roses and…
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Do you have nice smelling roses in your house? Then you can also make pure rose water. All it needs is a few roses and…
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"The greatest religion is to be true to your nature. Have faith in yourselves. "Swami Vivekananda
Radha Mani found a school friend through Facebook in her late forties. In class one, they sat on the same bench and recited Malayalam letters. Those memories made her look back to her childhood.
It was the rain that Radha Mani always kept close to her heart as her dear friend. She had forgotten the memories of her old thatched house. She looked for that old rain in her memories. The rain is flowing like a thousand threads through the thatch of her house. The raindrops fell on the gravel yard and laughed themselves. When it rained well, she was amused to see the rainwater making bubbles on the ground and playing on the threshold. Some big bubbles and small bubbles. Most of the bubbles hit on the sharp stones and burst. But a few bubbles coalesced to form rainwater and flowed away through the small streams.
When Radha Mani saw it, she jumped with joy. In the meantime, grandma called out to her and said, 'Mani! Hurry in. Else you will catch a cold if you get wet from the drizzle. Come and sit inside.'
'No grandma, it's not raining' she said.
She sat on the threshold again and played the harp of raindrops.
As the raindrops came down and inflated the bubbles, she watched unblinkingly as the colors of red, blue, green, and yellow mixed with each other.
Unbeknownst to grandma, Mani went down a little to the yard and looked at the sky. To find out if the rainbow seen earlier in the cloudy sky is still there...It was raining in the night too. There was thunder and lightning. Radha Mani screamed with fear. She ran away and took shelter in her grandmother's lap.
Even though it was raining, her mother Lalitha prepared food for everyone. Many of the banana trees had fallen due to the wind and rain.
Her mother kept the leftover curry and rice safely in a cupboard that was hanging in the kitchen. Mani's grandma used to make it a habit to eat that old rice mixed with water with curry as a breakfast.
Radha Mani remembered that she and her elder sister Geetha also eats that breakfast from her grandmas plate.
That night also it was heavy rain with thunder and storm. Mani was feared with the big sound of that thunder. She hugged her grandma with a little fear and hid under the blanket. At that night she saw the lightening coming through the thatched roof of her small house. The sound of that group of crickets she heard like a lullaby.
As soon as Radha Mani got up in the morning and washed her face. Her mother Lalitha prepared some black tea for everyone. She sat on a small stool in the kitchen. Her mother had poured a little amount of tea in a small steel glass.
"Mother this tea is not sweet". She took a sip from it and said. I will take some more sugar .After saying that she added a spoonful of sugar from the bottle and stirred it in the tea." This small girl wants too much sweet as honey, this is not good for your teeth" Grandma said to her.She was fully amazed to see the light yellow rays of the morning sun. Lot of long and short rays of the sun peeks in through the small gaps of the roof of the house. Many of long and short rays draw different pictures .She felt it all those yellow lights are moving. Radha Mani came close to see that wonder and looked curiously again and again. The lines are filled with very small powders. She watched as they moved in the sunlight.
Then she tried to catch that beautiful rays in her small hands. And Mani saw that her fingers are in red color those rays are passed through her fingers. But she wondered, why my palms are not in that red color. That rays fell down on the floor in different shapes of circles.
Hurry up and wash your face, your school opens today. Lalitha said to her.
Lalitha already made a new frock for .A beautiful white frock filled with light rose flowers. Filled with sleeves and it had a bow to tie at the back.
"School opens today. Shouldn't Radha Mani go to school?". Asked her father. A yellow colored sandals was bought from Ravi's shop. She wished for a small umbrella filled with beautiful flowers, but was not able to buy it. Next week will buy you that beautiful umbrella, he told her.
Radha Mani's father said to her mother Lalitha, get the child ready for bath.
"Father should bath me today". Radha Mani insisted her father.
Her father used to bath in hot water every morning. When she saw that big copper pot was filled with hot water .She would also run to bath with her father. Thus her father bathed the mischievous Radha Mani first.Radha Mani started getting ready to go to school in the morning. She used to see her friends also going to school.
Her house was only two kilometers away from the school . Radha Mani hung on her father's hand with a new dress and a slate and said goodbye to her mother and grandmother. Grandmother kissed her on the forehead. She said to Radha Mani, "Study and become a great man."
Her mother and grandma said goodbye and left. The sun shown all over the way to welcome her to a new world. On the way she saw many children. flowers of many colors were blooming on the roadside walls. She had to walk through a small alley to reach the field below.
Fields full of rice plants. A small stream was flowing through it. On the banks of the flowing stream were growing wild grasses and unknown flowering plants. Radha Mani saw the violet, white, blue and yellow flowers mixed together and shaking their heads with curiosity.She was surprised to see the water glistening like pearls on the sorghum leaves standing by the road during the overnight rain.
On both sides of the long winding alley were many plants and trees that even she had never seen before.
Pointing to the palm trees full of big leaves and thorns, she asked, "What is this tree?".
The name of that tree is Pana. Father told Radha Mani. Radha Mani saw such trees standing in many fields.
She felt that there was an awful silence with the coolness of the rain and the shade of the trees. She could also hear the chirping of crickets from time to time.
As she walked further, she saw that the stream turned into a bigger river. The river flowed through a large tunnel and disappeared. She wondered where it had gone.
It was only after some time that she was able to see him hiding under a hill and beyond the river. The slopes of the hill were full of kadhali flowers. Radha Mani saw tears falling on the spreading grass and pinched one of them.
The railway bridge was passing over that hill. She used to hear the sound of the train all the time when she was at home. The road ended at a tarred road. It was a school day, and on the way, I saw many rickshaw pullers, cycles, here and there a bus and a car. There were small and big shops, small hotels, and markets. Radha Mani felt that he had reached a very unfamiliar world. The father held Radha Mani tightly and carried her with him.
When Radha Mani reached school, her father told her. She was relieved to see some other children coming with their parents. Father took her hand and turned to the left side of the road. The first thing that caught her eye was a wide field.
Many people were walking there in a rush. There was a building with a long veranda. There were some plants in the yard of the school which was painted in blue and white.
The school was thatched. There were rows of pillars in the verandah and a bench in between.
Radha Mani saw many other children sitting on the bench arranged in the classroom. Someone suddenly grabbed her from the outside veranda and took her to the inner bench. The class is full of boys and girls.
In the midst of that rush, Radha Mani
went outside and made an attempt to see where his father had gone.
That's when I heard the sound of the bell ringing.
Suddenly someone entered the class.After a while, the whole classroom became silent. The class teacher was sitting on the seat. He came to the classroom with a cane and a book.
He spread out to stand with all of them. With a sense of dread, all students slowly got up. Thus, two or three times stand up, sit down, and he changed the trouble of students.
The teacher seated the forty children in the class in the order of six people each on a bench. Boys on the right and girls on the left.
A girl named Shyamala was next to me. Like me, she had her hair tied with ribbons on both sides. She was wearing a frock with light blue flowers. She was also brought to school by her father.
The class teacher wrote the names of all the children in the attendance book in alphabetical order. At that time, all the children got to know each other and exchanged new information.
Since it was the school's opening day, no alphabets were taught that day. After a while, the long bell rang and he told everyone to go home with their parents. Since then, Shyamala and I became friends.The teacher said that it would be a late afternoon school holiday. That's why the parents were waiting for the children in the field and on the veranda of the school. It was raining outside. Radha Mani saw her father waiting for her away from the crowd. She ran happily. The father took Radha Mani under his umbrella and walk with him.
Her father's shop was also near the school. Radha Mani listened curiously to many people talking to her father. Others asked her name. There was no tiffin in her bag. So her father bought her snacks from the
nearby hotel. It was raining from time to time . Radha Mani went back home with her brother.
There was water standing all over the road. She walked holding her brother's hand. While walking back, she looked for her friend Shyamala. But she did not see her on the road. Radha Mani walked in a sad mood.
On the tree that stood by the road, a heavy rain was falling on the top of the tree. The red and white flowers that fell from the tree were scattered all over the road. She used to remember her grandmother when she came back from the market with these flowers. She was the first to see so many flowers falling together.
She saw big nuts falling from the tree here and there. Her brother told her that they must be the nuts of that tree.
She picked a few flower buds.
As she walked again and reached the field, she felt as if she was happily welcomed by the wind-blown rice plants.
As if preparing for another rain, the sky was covered with black clouds. Water was flowing from the alley leading to the house into the stream below. As if preparing for another rain, the sky was covered with black clouds. Water was flowing from the alley leading to the house into the stream below. Shoshammachee's house was at the bottom of the terraced field. They had some chickens, goats and pigs. Shoshammachi's children and their pets can be seen playing together on the ground grazed with palm leaves and dung. As in Basheer's stories, everyone lived in that house with equal importance. In the evening, Shoshammachi would bring leftovers from the neighboring houses and give them to them. All the pigs lived in a hole cut out of stone in their field.
Sometimes the pigs would come to the yard to drink water. Her husband, who had gone to work in the rubber plantation, would come home in the evening.
All of them had kappa, sorghum, yams, bananas, plantains, mango trees, etc. in their fields. One of their sources of income was selling chicken eggs, goat's milk and pork.
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