PERA AMB
What is Pera Amb? Let me tell you,
but you will have to come along with me to My Village Ladori in Tehsil Nurpur,
District Kangra of Himachal Pradesh. ‘Pera Amb’ is a name given, out of sheer
love and affection, to a huge and more than a century old mango tree, sweetness,
aroma and thick pulp of mangoes of which just tasted like Mathura-ka-Peda. This
mango tree stood just near the back yard main outer wall of our Manjhol House,
amongst many other mango trees, in the mango orchard situated just touching
behind our house. Pera Amb stood erect but tilted towards our house from middle
upwards, at around sixty degrees over the roof and kitchen garden area of our
house. Number of its main branches came shooting towards our area, some of them
even entering into the first floor, through the room window enabling one touching
and feeling bunch of mangoes effortlessly. As a result, half of the volume of mangoes
falling down in our side of fencing that was there between the mango tree and
our house, huge quantity of unripe and ripen mangoes used to fall in our side
due to mild winds. This was the main reason of tension between Shri Charan
Singh Pathania, the owner of Pera Amb and my Dadi Rukmani. I have tried my best to bring out what
exactly went on between the two, each year, during mango season, through this
poem
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