The samosawala who used to operate at the corner, where our lane meets the main road, disappeared two months back.
Now hold it! Before you say what's the big deal, samosas are a dime a dozen, etc etc, this fellow used to make the best samosas you ever had. He didn't have a shop, he operated from under a tarpaulin strung on the side of the road. With a large iron kadhai over a wood fire for the samosas, and a smaller one for jalebis. Very nondescript, very unassuming, but what Samosas, and what jalebis!
His main customers were the students from Kristu Jayanti college nearby - the more well heeled would obviously prefer to buy their samosas from Anand Sweets which is just 100 meters away. But having eaten from both the places, I can vouch for his wares; I am willing to wager that no air-conditioned shop selling its samosas at three times the price can come close to the taste!
For the last two months, everytime we passed by the place, we would sigh a wistful sigh, and say, oh how we miss his samosas and jalebis! My mom in law included, who was a big fan of his jalebis.
You know what they say, you don't know how much you miss someone till they go out of your lives! Well, it was the same with us.
Anyway, to cut the long story short, today the wife came home with our favourite samosas and jalebis! He is back!, she announced; I have never seen that look on her face when I returned from a long absence, that is how I know that she is genuinely thrilled. Apparently, he had never left, he had just gone to his "gaon".
Well, he is back now and all is right with the world. And from the moment he opened his shop again, it is surrounded by devotees clustering around for their samosas.
All you techies who are reading this, it is time to introspect. If you disappear from your office to go to your gaon for two months, you will not be recognised when you come back to your office; if your job is still waiting for you that is.
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