Mango, a Taste of Indian Summer
By Archana Pidathala
ON A RECENT VISIT TO my ancestral village of Giddaluru in Andhra Pradesh in southeastern India, my mother and I made our customary summer trip to the family mango orchard. We drove past the familiar nameplate engraved with my grandfather’s initials, “P.R.,” and through the cast-iron gate to a sight that literally took my breath away: a thousand mango tr…