One thing I learned from fifteen years of night shifts, talking to people who thought Imphal was in Africa — you stretch the electric bill by turning off the water heater for two hours before dawn. My daughter-in-law's asthma, every winter, the smog sits thick like a blanket over the Kangla, and I tell her, 'Chaan, breathe slow.' The transistor radio on the porch, that's my one luxury — costs nothing, and the old Meitei love songs, they remind me that even when the money is thin, the heart is not.
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