Salt of the Earth
Every time when I lose faith on humanity, something magical would happen to change my opinion again. I went to the Tuesday fair this morning looking for some " Murunga " leaves to make a medicinal preparation. Asked a few manning stalls with no success and finally the lady usually selling Waraka (Ripened jackfruit) at the end of the fair directed me to someone selling some other fruits at the very end on a makeshift stall. I approached him cautiously as he was preparing his own stall and ask where if I could find some Murunga leaves. He was still busy arranging the stall but asked me as to why I was looking it. “To prepare some medicinal external application” , I blurted out without having not much of hope. He immediately stopped his work and said, “Yes, I have a tree behind my house” and started heading towards his house abandoning his half arranged fruit stall. I started following him not knowing exactly where he was heading. Five minutes later, he arrived at a dilapidated...