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My World Tuesday- Watermelons on the Road Side

Posted on April 27, 2010
water melons in Gurgaon summers
Water Melons on the Road Side

I recently discovered My World Tuesday. And I decided I too wish to take part.

In Gurgaon (quite close to New Delhi, India) summers are quite harsh, the mercury has already touched 46 degree Celsius. At the onset on summer you will find vendors sitting on the road side stocking water melons and tender coconuts filled with delicious water.

This Saturday I went to give my car for servicing. While coming back I decided to stop by the roadside and buy a water melon. We do not buy the ones that have been cut because they will gather a lot of dust and quite possibly cause illness. But buy a whole one and chances are things would be fine. And of course I polished off the water off a tender coconut. And that is quite safe as nature has packaged it quite well!

9 thoughts on “My World Tuesday- Watermelons on the Road Side”

  1. R. Ramesh says:
    April 27, 2010 at 4:31 pm

    melons..mellow melons.woww…good one mridula..btw…hey it was an anticlimax…hehe your comment..lol

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  2. Sylvia Kirkwood says:
    April 27, 2010 at 4:36 pm

    Love the watermelons! One of my favorite treats during the summer! Glad to have you join us, Mridula ! Hope you have a great week!! Enjoy!

    Sylvia

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  3. Doli says:
    April 27, 2010 at 4:43 pm

    wow! i used to like this chilled with a little sugar and used to eat them during summer vacations

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  4. Tarun says:
    April 27, 2010 at 4:56 pm

    watermelons are big and yummy

    😛

    but they do usually carry diseases if kept in open and cut

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  5. Mridula says:
    April 28, 2010 at 4:06 am

    Ramesh I can’t say you take bad photos all the time! But honestly flowers look pretty irrespective of who clicked them! 😀

    Sylvia, I usually click pictures around my city but then I am at loss of what to do with them, so this gives me the perfect opportunity to show them around!

    Doli we like putting rock salt on it and yes cold is better.

    Tarun, yes so I buy uncut ones.

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  6. Anu says:
    April 28, 2010 at 6:41 am

    my mouth waters when i see these melons….have yet to eat one this season! at present we are enjoying mangoes here 🙂

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    1. Mridula says:
      April 28, 2010 at 4:38 pm

      Ah mangoes, I like them a lot but they don’t seem to be out in numbers here yet Anu.

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  7. Chitra says:
    April 28, 2010 at 4:44 pm

    Here in my town also road sides are heaped with melons , nice red and juicy ones. I also don’t buy the cut slices. It comes fortified with dust:)

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    1. Mridula says:
      April 29, 2010 at 5:22 am

      Same story here Chitra.

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I am Mridula Dwivedi and I started this blog in 2005. It has been an amazing ride. I have visited 33 countries till date! I have worked with many tourism boards and prominent travel companies. My blog was featured on the BBC and the Guardian.

I did my Ph.D. from IIT Kanpur. I worked full time in academics till 2015! I quit my job as a professor, thinking I will take a break for one year, which turned into five.

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