Episode Synopsis "As summer slowly descends upon India, I think of times past…"
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://thebanyantree.home.blog/2021/03/22/as-summer-slowly-descends-upon-india-i-think-of-times-past/ It is about memories of a childhood - a childhood where the onslaught of the great, Indian summer was met with homemade lemonade, a bucket of bath water that had the flowers of the flame-of-the-forest tree, afternoons scented with the ittar of mogra or nagchampa flowers, and lunches made luxurious by mangoes, mulberries and musk melons... A time when the air-conditioner hadn't yet become a part of our home, and afternoon siestas were to be had together, with a thin chatai laid out on the drawing room floor...