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Cricket On A Road.

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Have you ever played cricket on a road? The game simply becomes fantastic.

A game of cricket played on any road, is a game where the stumps are either shorter or longer or most probably imaginary.

The rules are self-made and the umpiring is highly biased.

The most fun comes when protests are lodged with the umpire, who often disregards the rules towards the team whom he is not favouring.

When a batsman hits a four or a six, he learns it the hard way, that when the ball goes into someone else’s house, it is hard to convince them to give it back.

Many run away after the ball accidentally hits someone’s window glass and breaks it.

Road cricket is full of fun and frolic but be very careful, don’t hit anyone’s glass panes.

Adios!

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Another Morning Of Cricket.

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Yes, it is Sunday and yes it’s cricket day. The boys of my locality since morning till afternoon 01:30 pm were playing cricket like mad men.

You can sleep from morning till evening, no one will know.

In the scintillating Sun, they played cricket as if there is nothing else to do on this Holy day.

To play cricket after having full fledged lunch is hard.

Earlier people used to say that heavy breakfast, moderate lunch, in between have some light tiffin and have light supper with soup, but nowadays breakfast are always farce, not one hour will go and you will feel hungry. Then everytime you step on the weighing machine to check whether you have lost any weight or so.

I am thinking that the person who is running so slow must have had lunch, so what’s the meaning of playing cricket after lunch? What about the fast bowler who is acting like a medium pacer.

Be happy, take rest as it as a Sunday.

So a happy Sunday.

Adios!

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The Cube Of Sugar.

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The cube of sugar tastes so sweet.

It’s in its blood to be sweet.

We put three cubes of it in our teas,

Which makes it delicious to drink,

Often we do so when our mornings begin and before our evenings end.

It’s beneficial to have a whole bowl full of it at your nest,

As you know what is very best for your taste,

For whenever your tea or milk tastes bland,

You can put a few cubes of it in the tea and be happy,

Your day will be made when you have the fun of watching a sugar cube dissolve in a cup of tea.

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Clotted Cream aka “Malai” @ Rs.25

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I remember three years ago, I was hungry. It was three in midnight.Mummy was nudging me. I woke up and saw that in her hand was a plate in which Ma had brought for me bread layered with clotted cream and sugar. Clotted cream is known as “Malai” in Bengali and Hindi.It is top layer of cream which forms when milk is boiled.

At that time my father was in Nigeria.

Then something bad started happening. Everyday somebody would steal milk packets from our house front before we could open the door. The milkman would place the milk packets in a bag hung with a hook to our door and despite our constant reminders he would not ring the bell when he placed those milk packets in the bag. So somebody very cunningly, conveniently would steal our packets of milk and few days later we had to stop buying milk from the milk seller, as he wouldn’t owe up to the fact that his boys were faltering in their duties. We started buying tetra packs of milks.

But the milk in the tetra packs doesn’t give malai.

We definitely miss that milk and malai.

Now while we were walking upon an uncommon street (it is not very well known). My mother saw someone having tea in a small glass. That person was standing near the front steps of an store. The store wasn’t attractive but unique.

We went to that shop and ordered for two teas. We asked them-“What else do you sell?”

The shopowner replied- “Milk and malai.”

 We were very surprised.  We had never seen a shop where someone sold malai.

One kadai is always on the stove and the milk is continuously boiling.

The shop sells malai @ Rs.25/50 gm and Rs. 50/100 gm. People come all the way to drink milk and tea over there.

We were so surprised that we ordered for the malai. We were very happy that we can have malai again and maybe with God’s grace all our troubles would vanish once and for all.

Adios!