Just got back into Madras today - went down to the Spencer's Superstore in the street corner.

I bought, in addition to other regular stuff - three mangoes - which weighed 1.3 kilos for which i was charged, hold your breath, a hundred bucks - approx 75 bucks a Kilo.

I was plainly stunned - that was what like 35 bucks per mango.

I hurried back with the mangoes and ate one of em. It tastes fine - but not very different from what i ate back home yesterday.

Back home in Madurai we have this small mango plantation where our factories are - and there are about 300 mango trees (there are more im sure) - and each of em producjng about 300 mangoes a year - that makes what 300 x 300 = 90000 mangoes a year.

And at wholesale rates around 6 or 7 bucks a piece - this must be surely worth about 90000 x 7 = 6,30,000 a year on the conservative side.

The contractor bloke pays us like half this last figure as per my mom [ Who BTB forever keeps hounding my dad to ask him for more ] for one season's mangoes and forever weeps that he barely makes a profit each year. For all i can see my dad isnt bothered.

I wonder though - so much value addition potential exists in such a small little thing -

Its like that all the time - sometimes we just dont have the energy to open up too many battle fronts in life and fight all of em with the same intensity, eh ?

P.s - Im going semi anonymous now and call myself 'A' [ I racked my brains nice n hard for about 5 mins for a suitable name - my mom calls me by a ridiculus nickname - all other names i can think of - i didnt like that much - So 'A' i am - for now ]