She sprang to her feet when she saw her father’s figure approaching in the dim light of the lamp.
Glancing out of the hut Kusum noted that the yellow blossoms on the ridgegourd creeper were slowly opening their petals in the reddish evening light.
The Shigmo festival comes to our village bringing with it thronging crowds. Drums beat men dance bodies smeared with coloured powders. But best of all