[Reader-list] The Mango Tree

[Kshmendra Kaul]

Dear Inder
 
Will you please specify where it is in Kashmir  that there are "thousand of apricot trees on road side and people are fee to eat,"
 
Kshmendra


--- On Thu, 4/30/09, Inder Salim <indersalim at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Inder Salim <indersalim at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] The Mango Tree
To: "reader-list" <reader-list at sarai.net>
Date: Thursday, April 30, 2009, 3:58 PM

Thanks dear Kath
both yours and Sphea have relished free mangoes is a pleasant news
, probably from an area which was not owned by anybody, but
nevertheless there are spaces where people have a healthy relationship
with earth and its products. but that is so limited, alas

settling issues of equal distribution issue with others in community
is what i dont how, and whom shall we empower to decide, as i said
there thousands of eys and one mango tree. so it is almost difficult


in kashmir there is thousand of apricot trees on road side and people
are fee to eat,

thanks for your comment in the blog as well

love
IS



On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 6:38 AM, Kath O'Donnell <aliak77 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> hi Inder, my mango eating experience is also from Australia similar to
> Sophea's. mangoes are also grown in Queensland which is on the east
> coast of Australia, to the North - some of the best (imo) come from
> Bowen which is a town on the edge of the Whitsunday Islands. we had
> relatives living there, so in summer, when we were children we'd be
> sent a couple of cases of Bowen mangoes. this would be a real treat,
> and some of the other neighbourhood kids would come over to share in
> the treats. Mum would make us eat them outside in our togs (swimsuits)
> with the hose next to us as it was a really messy affair. we just
> peeled them and ate - they were very sweet, sometimes a little stringy
> towards the end. we'd end up with mango juice all over our faces and
> hands and have to hose ourselves off then run around in the sunshine.
> we didn't dice the mangoes or slice them into more manageable &
less
> messy pieces as people do these days - the mess was part of the fun.
>
> and yes, I've also heard (in Brisbane) that if the fruit hangs over
> the fence into your yard or the footpath then you can pick the mango
> and eat it. no one seems to worry as there's usually an abundance of
> fruit which otherwise ends up falling off the trees to the ground and
> the birds eat them and go a little silly - they seem to become drunk
> on too many. the mango trees fruit in yards in Brisbane aren't as nice
> as the Bowen mangos though - I suppose they're a slightly different
> species? (not sure)
>
> I had mangoes whilst in Delhi, and I was told they were famous in
> India (I forget which city - somewhere South?) but they didn't taste
> as sweet and juicy as the mangoes from my childhood. though memories
> have a way of doing that to something when you try it again later.
> plus I had them in a restaurant, and to me, that's just not the place
> / way to eat mangoes properly!! you need to be out in the sunshine
> making a mess. :)
>
> I hope your community can work out a way to share the mangoes and
> enjoy them in the summertime.
> kath
>



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