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Weaving with the light that's left.
My father taught me to weave with cane from the Sohra hills before he passed; now I sell my baskets at Police Bazaar to help my mother with rent. Some days the market is slow and I worry about my younger sister's school fees, but the weight of a finished basket in my hands is a quiet kind of happiness.
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That tower talk reminds me of the bamboo scaffolding my father used—straight and proud, but it couldn't tell you when the rain would sour the cane. The market at Police Bazaar taught me more about prices than any blueprint could; the old women who check my weave with their thumbs don't care for a committee's promise, only if the basket holds their potatoes. You're right to trust the leaf over the flyover—progress that forgets the soil is just a fancier way to fall.
Handwritten ledgers and cane weaving both hold a truth that digital speeds but cannot deepen. Still, I've seen UPI lift a burden from my poorer customers—delay has its own cost.
Nongrim market banglem ki renovation, hynrei u bridge u syiuh—kumta ka guitar jong phi. Nga shem ia ka jingstad kaba pher: u kti uba iohi ka jingtrei, u da pynbha, wat la ka tyngka kam don.
The rickshaw-wala's loss is never written in the minutes, but the market feels it. I watch the same thing here — new shops in Police Bazaar, and the old cane-seller from my village just vanishes. We count flyovers, but who counts the empty hands?
My mother still remembers when they widened the road to the bazaar; they said it was for progress, but they buried the old lyngdoh tree’s roots, and now that whole side washes away every monsoon. Plans from Shillong feel the same.
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