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It was around 4pm and Ammini knew that her husband would soon be home. Now all the tasks and chores of her day were over. She would make 'chaya' or tea and would pour it out into the simple, steel glasses they possessed.
Today only Lekha and she were at home. Her other children were older and were at work. Raj and Venu would be finishing up in the office and at the factory, and Latha would probably be on her way to one of her tuition classes at the moment.
Lekha asked for some biscuits with the tea, but there weren't any remaining in the box. It was the end of the month and her husband's salary wouldn't be in her hands for the next five days at least. Ammini offered to make some sweetened rice flakes instead, in place of the biscuits. It would be hard work to scrape the coconut and cut soft slivers of the big, hard piece of jaggery, but all three ingredients were readily available in the house.
She and her youngest daughter sat on the floor cross-legged eating this simple, yet delicious snack with their tea while they heard the birds chattering away noisily. It was the end of day for nature and the birds were hurriedly making their way home to their nests.
Lekha sucked at the juices that the coconut and jaggery were forming in her mouth as she chewed on the rice flakes. Daddy will soon be home and I will then go down and play, she thought.
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