(This first appeared on AmreekanDesi)
Finally, I am home after what seemed to be an eternity.
Well, I do have doubts as to whether 47 days qualify as an
eternity. But the burgeoning pile of untidy clothes (which warranted the
purchase of a room freshener to help Set Wet’s cause) that threatened to bury
me alive in my own room failed to suggest otherwise. To Mom and her washing
machine then!
Nothing much has changed in these intervening 47 days save
the state of my wardrobe.
Apart from the fact that onions now cost almost the same as underwear,
and that the PM talked (yes he did, about the most ideal candidate to be his
successor as a puppet), things have remained the same more or less, especially
on the soap opera front.
These soap operas have become the raison d’etre for many
news channels too that provide news feed about a popular TV actress indulging
in manicure, or the latest development in a soap dealing with child marriage.
Well, Syria can wait.
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