Falsa, The Purple Summer Fruit You See For Weeks Before It Disappears
If you grew up in North India, there’s a good chance you remember them. Tiny, dark purple berries piled into a conical leaf packet or a small paper bag, handed over by a street vendor whose call, “kale kale phalse, taravat wale phalse”, you could hear from two lanes away. You’d eat them by the…