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The "DELulu" in your "SOULulu"

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It was a rainy day. We were in a village called Palimar in Udupi district , in my Paternal Aunt's house, sipping some amazing herbal tea that my aunt had made. What a wonderful evening it was! Amazing weather, the beautiful scenes of Palimar's greenery, and the warmth of my paternal extended family who have the same wavelength of sense of humor as I. Just the kind of thing I love!! As I was sipping tea while complimenting my aunt for making one heck of an herbal tea and cracking jokes, one of my other aunt commented - ' Our parental generation used to say that there shall come a time when there will be no rice to eat , as the population is rising '. They may have made these comments somewhere in 70s or 80s of the last century is my guesstimation. Of course that's what would have appeared to the eyes of people of that time. An ever increasing population of India, added to that a lack of resources - also known as 'the remains of the British loot'. ...