London: You just utter “lizard”. And the next moment I find that it is enough to make my daughter scurrying for cover shrieking chipkali (Hindi word for the home-grown reptile). She would grab me by my clothes pleading to get rid of what she would say “that ugly lizard” from the walls of our rooms.“No, no, I cannot put up with that nasty thing. Please do something about the problem”,
she would implore stomping her shoes like a kindergarten girl.And that persistent demand makes me wonder about how to get over this lizard menace which is an annual phenomenon.
There are many of them that swarm the walls hiding behind hanging pictures,photo frames and what not.Towards the end of May/June,tiny lizards of one-and-a-half to two
inches in size would crawl all over the place. Their appearance indicates that the rains are around the corner. The wet weather gives birth to kilos of insects, winged and otherwise, who make a good meal for these creatures.
