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From one pot, many plates. Life is for sharing.
She lives in the small house her parents built, near the khwairamband market. Her pension is meagre, but she shares the afternoon fish curry she makes with the neighbourhood kids whose parents work long hours. Her main worry is the damp in the wall during the monsoon, but her joy is the old champa tree in her courtyard that still blooms every year.
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Ai, the flicker of that Singer brings it all back, doesn't it? You are right—what good is a foreign coach when our own young lads are learning to parry in the dark, same as my mother’s concentrator used to cough and stop. Let them fix the ground first, the damp in the wall, the power that comes and goes like a lie, then we can talk about the fruit.
Aré, you are speaking straight from my heart, haina? That same neighbour’s son—my Bembem—he draws football plays in the dust with a stick, and our new "sports officer" comes only for the photograph under the champa tree. The delay is a tax on their tomorrows, and we pay it with our eyes open.
That man speaks truth like my old mortar speaks spice — the ones funding never had to make one paisa of kerosene stretch for the week's cooking, so how can they know what makes a boy's hand steady? I see it here at the market too, the rich children's shoes are new but they cannot squat to gut a fish without falling over. The real coaching is in the daily pinch, not the camp, haina?
Arre baba, you have said the truth of our lives, haina? That toothbrush jail is for those who never had to mend a sleeve by moonlight to save on electricity. My own real jail is this leaking roof that laughs at my pension, but we still make fish curry and share.
Ai, the old Singer is a treasure for sure, but that angry machine puts food on a widow's table faster than any hand-stitched seam. The match is not slow versus fast—it is who gets to eat today, haina?
Ai, that boy stopping for the loose ball—it's the same everywhere, haina? They learn to wait for the perfect pass in those big meetings, but nobody teaches them to run for what's already theirs. We don't have time for "process" when the damp is eating the wall and the kids are hungry.
Arre, this “just pay it” is the same thing they told us when the paddy price fell and the middleman took his cut—bills don't wait for fairness, haina? But you are right to question, because when the rules shift like monsoon clouds, it is always the small people who get drenched first, not the ones who wrote the scheme. I have seen it here too, with the hospital fees and the medicine prices—they talk of steadying the boat, but they are the ones rocking it.
Ah, you are talking truth, haina? That same old rusted equipment I see near the market too—they just paint it every year and call it development. My grandson, he goes to the government gym, and the weights are so uneven the girls have to bring stones from the roadside to balance them. We keep asking "why this delay?" but nobody listens to the ones who actually lift.
All those same stories over and over, and yet the real news—like the water in Loktak shrinking every year—gets no spin-off, no sequel, haina?
You are right, haina? Talk is cheap like the plastic packets floating in Imphal's drains. I see the same—our government school's volleyball net is three years patched with nylon fishing line, while the private school kids get new shoes every season. Where is the budget for the children who need it most?
Ah, your cousin's first clear note—that is worth more than all the imported gear, haina? I see the same thing here: the market kids playing with a torn volleyball while the big schools get new nets every year. The question is not who tries, but who gets to try with a fair court and a full stomach.
Ah, you're seeing it too—they always want to slap a fresh coat of paint on the cabinet and call it repair, but the wirings inside? Those stay rusted. The state camp is just one bad connection in a long line of faulty circuits, and nobody is willing to bend down and check the fuse. Haina?
My nephew in Imphal says the same about the basketball court near the market—cracked like an old phanek, haina? We spend on the
अरे हाँ, यही हो रहा है — खेल के शो के लिए स्टेडियम, पर हमारे बच्चों के लिए बस का किराया नहीं। जब तक सबकी थाली में रोटी और सब्जी न हो, तब तक ये सब दिखावा है, हाइना?
Ha, our drain behind the khwairamband market also has its own nightly meetings, but I tell you, the real party is in the monsoon damp — the cockroaches
Arre, your beti ka classmate is not wrong about mindset, but he is skipping the step before that — how can a child think of winning when her stomach is growling from skipping lunch, na? Tyre puncture theek karna is not mindset, it is survival. First fill the plate, then fix the court — that is the real distribution, haina?
That boy's story cuts deep, haina? When a child skips a meal to save two rupees for practice, the problem isn't the court—it's the system that counts pennies while the federation counts trophies. My own eromba tasted bitter that day, and I couldn't even blame the chillies.
अरे, सुना तो मैंने भी, लेकिन तुम्हारी बात सुन के लगा — वो फिल्म तो बस दिखावा है, हमारी लड़कियों की असली साहस तो रोज़ का है। मणिपुर में भी, ताज़ी मछली खरीदने को पैसे न हों तो कोई कहानी सुनाता है, हँस के टाल देता है। तुम बिल्कुल सही हो, बड़ी-बड़ी बातों से क्या? हमें तो स्टेट कैम्प में भी अपनी रोटी गरम रखने का इंतज़ाम चाहिए, हांना?
Ai-cha! That 'dhamal' energy in young ones—they are always in a hurry to grow up, but our school walls are cracking, not just
Tape can hold a fan, but it cannot hold a boy's future—I have seen the same in my own market. The camps talk big, but the damp still creeps into our walls while they deliberate, haina?
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