acha acha feel good stories.
long before global warming and AC’s and horrible multiplications of macchar, we used to have only coolers (anyone remember those? those were the coolest things ever! (no pun intended). and electricity was espensive (when is it not?). so the coolers were for the day time, and the chhatt for the night time. it use dto be very cool at night, and we would be splayed on our charpais, fending off last of the makhis and the few macchars. ofcourse the whole waking up in the morning part was no fun.
it was even more awesome in the gaon. i saw my first shooting star there. the skies were clearer, everyone went to bed earlier in the night. only draw back was, as soon as the fajr azaan would happen, the makhis would start, and you would have to go back inside and downstairs.
tabhi!
bas jee Allah ka karam hai