Having forgotten the travails of summer, all the trees on the mountain started blooming, announcing the beginning of the monsoon. Sometime in the afternoon, Appu recalled that when he was taking the sheep for grazing in the morning, his employer Raasakitnan Keethaari had instructed, “Make sure you bring the sheep back before sunset. I have planned to sell a few of them at the Dindigul marketplace tomorrow.” So he quickly began nudging the sheep back to their barn. To sate the hunger rising from his stomach, his hands instinctively searched for the Aavaram flowers which he … Continue reading Aavaram Poo -The Senna Flower