Ahmed Bhai's quaint little coconut shack is the first to greet you as you get down the stairs to the kaipalle pyaati...
Ahmed Bhai's is from where we bought coconuts, right from the time I came shopping for vegetables with Granny way back in the early 80's. Back then, his shop was just a small three-by-three carpet made of sack cloth sewn together and he was a sprightly young man carrying sack-loads of coconuts day in and day out...
Today, 70 year old Ahmed Bhai owns this modest six-by-eight shack fashioned all by himself out of old wooden crates, tin hoardings and loads of sack cloth... He is assisted by his son who does most of the hauling now.
There's something about Ahmed Bhai, his quaint lil shack, these lovely brown coconuts that always fascinated me no end. This beautiful monochrome, almost sepia frame was what I feasted my eyes on every time I was in the Pyaati... Even today, two years after having shifted to Kalyan Nagar, I still make it a point to take a bus to CBT, walk down to the kaipalle pyaati every once in a while... And kaipalle shopping isn't complete without a "Salaam Ahmed Bhai. Kaise ho? Do achhe nariyal nikaal ke do please..."
Ahmed Bhai's is from where we bought coconuts, right from the time I came shopping for vegetables with Granny way back in the early 80's. Back then, his shop was just a small three-by-three carpet made of sack cloth sewn together and he was a sprightly young man carrying sack-loads of coconuts day in and day out...
Today, 70 year old Ahmed Bhai owns this modest six-by-eight shack fashioned all by himself out of old wooden crates, tin hoardings and loads of sack cloth... He is assisted by his son who does most of the hauling now.
There's something about Ahmed Bhai, his quaint lil shack, these lovely brown coconuts that always fascinated me no end. This beautiful monochrome, almost sepia frame was what I feasted my eyes on every time I was in the Pyaati... Even today, two years after having shifted to Kalyan Nagar, I still make it a point to take a bus to CBT, walk down to the kaipalle pyaati every once in a while... And kaipalle shopping isn't complete without a "Salaam Ahmed Bhai. Kaise ho? Do achhe nariyal nikaal ke do please..."
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