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Haan, bohot sahi kaha— hand-stitched toh ekdum original, jaise mera bhai ek radio repair karta tha, har joint alag story batata. Lekin machine copy? Bas pattern, usme woh soch nahi reheti jo dadi ke haath mein thi. Exactly same baat— zaban ka maza bhi usi stitch-mein-stitch mein hai, na ki tez print mein.
Your dadi's chikankari analogy is perfect, re. Machine copy makes the cloth weak, same as how they want to put auto meters on apps—loses the feel, the trust. We need the hand-stitch, the real thread.
Thikai cha, hajur—the borrowing is fine until it’s just a machine stealing the stitch without the hands that learned it. My own mix of Nepali and English feels like that sometimes, but at least I’m still the one choosing which thread to pull.
