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JACK IN THE CLEFT


By Dr. R Sudarshan

That's the most favored jackfruit tree of all on the farm and this is its first fruit of the season. It is growing bigger in a cleft and is wedged so hard that it won't be possible to harvest it intact. Either the tree wants the birds to eat or the connoisseurs to slice it on the spot. 

We know not yet. For now, the story is stuck.

For any relevant query, message 81051 12990.

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Padma Farms, Farmer's House, # 1A - 13th Cross, Kalidasa Road, VV Mohalla, Mysore.

April 01, 2022

STORY REOPENS: JACKFRUIT BANQUET FOLLOWS!

That's the best jackfruit tree we have on the farm. Its fruits are as sweet as honey and it is not something that you can value in money. And it grew so possessive of its first fruit of the season that it inserted it in a cleft and locked it tight. The fruit is now big and is immovably fixed in the arms of an otherwise generous giant.

The fruit will ripen in that cleft in about a week or 10 days. And the only way to work around it is to open it on the spot and be grateful to the tree for charitably allowing a theft.

We are collecting the biggest jackfruit connoisseurs we have known in this community. Undoubtedly, Seetha the swimmer, and Arun who learned to eat away jackfruits while she swam the seas in the world, would head to the banquet table at the foot of the tree. 

Soon, Padma Farms will host a jackfruit banquet for the greatest connoisseurs in town under the most possessive tree on the planet. 

And yes, that will be the weirdest banquet ever.

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Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

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