The shop is ready, Lakhmi Kohli
[10-09-2006]
A narrow opening – the slight wall of woven material has been cut open, the flap raised and kept in place with the support of a bamboo stick. This marks the house as being different from others. One can tell no one will stay here after 11:00 at night.
The floor is cool with the fresh smear of mud and cow-dung.
Just as one can sense there is an urgency in everyone to get their own land, a haste to make a home on it, one can also tell making a shop on the plot assigned to ones name is very important here.
What kind of a life will a shop in the middle of the lane have? Will it be able to create its own market? It's not so important to work out these questions just yet. First let the shop get made; let everyone get accustomed to its presence.
In the lane, a few plots still lie vacant, without anything built on them. Other than on these, work is being carried out with a kind of immediacy.
A narrow opening – the slight wall of woven material has been cut open, the flap raised and kept in place with the support of a bamboo stick. This marks the house as being different from others. One can tell no one will stay here after 11:00 at night.
The floor is cool with the fresh smear of mud and cow-dung.
Just as one can sense there is an urgency in everyone to get their own land, a haste to make a home on it, one can also tell making a shop on the plot assigned to ones name is very important here.
What kind of a life will a shop in the middle of the lane have? Will it be able to create its own market? It's not so important to work out these questions just yet. First let the shop get made; let everyone get accustomed to its presence.
In the lane, a few plots still lie vacant, without anything built on them. Other than on these, work is being carried out with a kind of immediacy.
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