Meet and drink: Tony D’Souza and the toddy tapper

‘It was the most remarkable encounter of my life.’

A toddy tapper, 2005 | Photo: by Brian Snelson on Flickr

It was the most remarkable encounter of my life. It was perhaps more remarkable because no words passed between us: he did not speak English, and I did not speak Tamil. That didn’t matter, because what happened when I met the toddy tapper was beyond words.

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