It is an annual ritual. Before the onset of summer, we buy bleaching powder and carbolic acid. The bleaching powder is sprinkled in front of every entrance (we have only seven) to the house from the garden and cotton dipped in carbolic acid is hidden in corners inside the house in a manner such that the broom cannot reach them. All this to keep snakes at bay.
This year we forgot.
Early this week, our house help was sweeping the long corridor that runs through the house. In this season, typically, there are lots of things put in the sun in pre-pickle
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