Humour by Rehana Munir: The perils of moving house
Aug 01, 2021 08:54 AM IST
Unpacking the overwhelming, yet inevitable, phenomenon of relocation, as you go through multiple conveniences you had forgotten about and come across long lost personal memorabilia
I’m speaking to you while surrounded by a dozen cartons exuding a cardboard smell that reminds me of craft exams in the rains. The kind where an implacable art teacher draws a dots-and-dashes pattern on the blackboard, ostensibly for a cardboard box — a nightmarish Morse code for chronically unskilled students like me. Its peculiar odour pervades my dreams, gruesome at the best of times. I have merely moved homes, but it has felt like moving mountains.
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