When he was a little boy, Chamrajpet Charles used to stand under this Elephant Slide, every summer vacation, and wonder: This Elephant is just like my favourite Uncle Marvin. Big, black, blue and silent from all the thulping from Aunt Mildred and his 13 children, with their running noses. All of them screaming, climbing and sliding all over him!
This slide is at Makkala Koota playground, Chamrajpet. Every generation of kids in this part of Benglur would have spent their summer vacation in this park, shaded by majestic trees, including Charles, if he was a real.
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Such a cute story of Charles.
ReplyDeleteThe picture gives a Majestic feel, is this a slide?
Yes. It is a slide.
ReplyDeleteLovely!:)
ReplyDeletebeautifully written!!!
ReplyDeleteCute.. Love that blue on him.
ReplyDeleteReminds me of an elephant slide back in Jamshedpur's Jubilee Zoological park :)
so nostalgic!
ReplyDeletemy childhood too was spent on an elephant slide in a park which i thought for the longest time was name after me!
what a piece! Love what you have written. You should shoot the stone elephant slide at the children's park next time you are in cochin!
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