Brass Tap I was recently forced to go shopping with my plumber to buy some taps, pipes and fixtures for the new wash basins installed at home. When I went to the shop, the shop owner had some excellence award from some company for sales he had done. I could not help but notice the similarity of the design of the tap to the tap we used to use when we were kids. My childhood was in a joint family, we were 21 people in a house which was less than 12 square meters of carpet area. It had tiled roof, we had rats, squirrels commonly wandering amongst us. We had a backyard which was typically used to store all the firewood for heating water etc. Although we had a water heater or boiler in place which used to run on electricity it was too expensive for us to run on that. Our house backyard was a famous playground for us cousins post the play time outside of the house. My father was the youngest son of my grandparents. That made me an uncle the d...