Chinnu, Kutty Chinnu, come give me a hand,” called out Kalyani. A lean 7-year-old boy with twinkling eyes came running from the garden, where he had been plucking semi-ripe guavas from a medium-sized tree. He dropped the cloth bag with the guavas on the ground and deftly lifted the wicker basket filled with cucumbers, helping his mother place it on her head. The...
