I love the web.
There I was, quietly watching the golf at Turnberry, occasionally switching over to the cricket at Lord’s, seated in my favourite armchair at home.
Felt a little peckish, so I went and got myself a handful of fresh lychees. Peeled each one carefully so as not to have the juices spurt everywhere. Extracted the seed carefully. Then savoured the taste of the fruit, one by one. A heavenly fruit.
Which led me on to thinking of other exotic fruit, fleshy and juicy and oh-so-tropical. I began to recall childhood memories of eating a very unusual fruit as a young boy, the only name I could remember was the Tamil word we used at home for it: Nongu.
Now I haven’t seen a nongu for forty years. Had no idea what its “Western” name was.
Today it doesn’t matter. Google the word. [So what if the word is in Tamil?] Inspect the results, find there’s one that leads straight to Flickr. Find what I’m looking for in Flickr, notice I now have an option to “blog this”. Take one minute to configure Flickr for posting straight to my WordPress blog. And there you have it.
The fruit of the palmyra tree, resplendent and peeled and ready to eat. Something I will definitely do next time I am in Madras during the right season.
So thank you Google, Flickr, WordPress, for the tools to make this possible.
Thank you Kamala L for posting the photo on Flickr and making it possible for me to write this post.
Thank you community at large for sharing stuff on the web, making it possible for people like me to participate and share.
Beautifully depicted! Went back to my summer vacations when I was a child, popping out now and then anticipating the old lady with a basket of nongus on her head calling out for us – her loyal customers :-)
The web’s so handy, one doesn’t have to miss most things these days.
Now, you piqued my curiosity and I see wikipedia telling me that nongu is called “ice-apple” in the West! A cool name, though!
Glad to be of service. The great thing about blogging this way is that I only need to know that the post made a small difference to at least one person!