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Summary of the story - "The Kaafal Is Ripe"

Answer 1

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When the hard green kaafal berries begin to turn red and juicy in the sun, the sounds of two birds echo through the hills and valleys of Uttarakhand. One of them calls out “Kafal pako, maile na chakho! (The kaafal is ripe, but I never tasted it!)”, while the other says, “Pur, putai, pure, pur! (They are all there, daughter, they are there, all there!). The people believe that the cry of two birds is actually a girl, “Haruli” appealing to her mother “Saru”.

Answer 2

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Kafal is a very popular fruit of hilly region of uttarakhand. It grows on trees and the average tree sizes are smaller than mangoes. The fruit itself is very small in size than mango. You can think the size of a kafal almost similar to almond. The completely ripen kafal has dark red or blackish color and it tastes amazingly sweet. The half ripen has pinkish color and taste sour and sweet.

Kafal found in the hilly region which are high in altitude. Hight altitude (top of maountain) region has low temperature so they are relatively cold in comparison of the low altitude (valley,bottom of mountain) regions. Since kafal grows in the cold regions which is not favorable for mangoes so mangoes and kaafal are not found in the same region.

Kumaon region is mainly known for this fruit. Ranikhet, Almora and Nainital districts are well known for kafal. In local kumaon language this fruit is called ‘kaafo‘.

Kafal is picked from a dozen-meter long wild trees during May and June. Kafal trees are found on hills of Nepal and Northern India, between the altitudes of one and two thousand meters above sea level. Kafal changes to reddish purple color ellipsoid-shape fruit at its maturity. In scientific journals, kafal is mostly called Myrica esculenta, but also referred as Myrica integrifolia and Myrica nagi. In ancient Sanskrit language, kafal is often called Kaiphala or Katphala, and believed to have a medicinal property.

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