Manorama Pandurang Sashital, who turns 100 today, is hard of hearing and her speech is slightly incoherent. But, when we pass on a hand-written note requesting her to share stories about the wadi, her beady eyes light up. "There was a bimbal (bilimbi in English) tree near Building Number 17. I loved the lonche (pickle) we would prepare from its fruit," she says.