India, June 1 -- It's the month when even the Sun blushes green with envy.

It's the season of Cannes, cricket and canary chandeliers.

Come June, and it lights up our lives with golden 'chandeliers'.

Chandeliers that screen us from the fierce June sun. Chandeliers that almost outshine the dazzle of the ripe summer sun.

Amaltas, ahoy!

What the golden Daffodils are to William Wordsworth, the Amaltas is perhaps to the desi poetic pen.

Childhood meant growing up with different sort of sun screens in summer. Sun screens that had nothing to do with chemicals and commercials. Summers that had nothing to do with stocks and stocks of sun screens.

Rather, summers that had everything to do with stalks and stalks of sun screens. Sun screens tha...