Monday, June 08, 2009

Technically I'm not her maasi but still.
On a recent trip to Pune, on being given a glass of matka water, Ishita asked how many ice cubes we had put into the water it to make it so cold. We said none, it's from the matka. The next question from the aquaguard generation kid was how did water get into the matka? I told her it had a fresh water spring. I don't know if she was convinced but even the shape of the glasses was new to her. No plain straight glasses for her, she wanted to drink from the 'lota'!
And she desperately wanted to stay back in Pune... one extra day. She tried her best to convince her dad. Then she went into the kitchen where mum was cleaning and soaking the dal. "Don't clean it," she told my mum, "just make it like that only. Everyone will fall ill and then we won't go back!"