Every summer we visited my village, it was so hot and dry… I believe I could see mirages on the dry dusty roads… There were small pleasures to be had, such as the bell of the icecream man was greeted with cheers. We could buy an ice-cream for 1 Rs to 5 Rs. By Mokkie [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons Grandma would ask people who still had henna plants in their backyard garden to harvest leaves and send. These leaves would be washed and ground by hand in a as shown below. My grandma would also add in either tamarind or lemon juice to . By Bhaskaranaidu [CC…