Page 16 - Seniorstoday September-2023 Issue
P. 16

Image Courtesy: delightinpink












         container in which there was an Ice cream           The fisherwomen who came to the door
         on a stick. The above two have completely          with fresh catch. After the usual haggling,
         disappeared. Thirdly, there is still a             she cleaned the prawns and cut the fish.
         handcart that sells hand-churned Ice cream         She also could get you homemade fish fry
         sold under the brand name of Mewad Ice             masala.
         Cream.                                              Our meat man comes to the door with fresh
          Also have disappeared a lot of vendors            cut meat and other organs, this is a second
         who came to the door.                              generation vendor, and his father would
         a.The Pao and eggs man brought oven-fresh          come twice a week. I remember the father
         pao, bread and eggs.                               one day brought his son to the door and told
          The Khaari Waala who brought Khaari               us that he had become too old to go house
         Biscuits, crispy crunchy in the mouth,             to house and his son would now take over
         round-baked puffs that are called butter           the business. A few years later, he came and
         biscuits and assortment of chivdas, fried          said goodbye to us saying that he was going
         dal that he carried in a large trunk on his        back to Akbarpur, his village in UP. They
         head and went house to house. All the              were emotional parents. My parents gave
         stuff is now sold in packs of various sizes        him some tissues, a towel and a blanket.
         by companies like Haldiram, Lakshmi                Much later, the old man died and we
         Narayan Chivda etc. This man still has a           condoled with his son. The meat vendor’s
         few old-timers who buy khaari biscuits             sons no longer want to be in this business.
         from him but otherwise this vendor will            His elder son is a software engineer and
         soon disappear.                                    younger son is a qualified chemist wanting


    16
   11   12   13   14   15   16   17   18   19   20   21