Apart from the essentials like water, food and basic clothing, gamchha tops the list of things that make life easier during travel. To mention a quote I vaguely remember, "A towel gamchha is about the ...

Between the mid-1970s and late 1990s, in tiny places with quaint names such as Barabhum, Piska, Chandrapura and Muri in the arid zone that was the Bihar-Bengal border, my family and I learnt to live ...