This captivating short story is originally written in Hindi by Hansa Deep and translated from Hindi by Rajni Mishra.
The snow-covered land gets a chance to breathe freely when the long-awaited summer approaches. The cold and piercing winds stop to take rest for some time. Like a newborn baby, the new blades of grass enter the world happily. The naturalised green beauty shows its love and embraces the Earth.
This is the time when Lito starts his work of grass cutting. As the grass grows and reaches its teenage, leaving behind its infancy, he gets busy. His work is to maintain the lawns of the houses for six months and to remove snow for another six months. His life is passing, adjusting to these weather changes. The task of removing snow is not as easy as it seems in hearing.
In Canada, when the snow falls with full force in the bitter winter, everything fails – machines, spades, or strong men. It is not easy to do this laborious job in the bone-piercing winter. Bundling up in warm clothes and cleaning the snow-covered roads outside the house drains off one’s complete energy.