Instead of using Gesso, Chetna rustled up ready-to-use mouldit-clay from baby powder, glue and whitener. “Cheaper for everyday kaam,” she reasoned. “Dagh bagh dagh bagh Dada bhaiya darru ko bolo na na bhaiya,” she crooned the nukkad natak de-addiction theme song, collecting Smirnoff, brandy, rum bottles from the audience, her voice raw and scratchily-discordant with the tung-tung. Kerosene-swabbing them, she drew all-Gulaab 3D- rosettes, button-eye, ruffled blooms, glossing them with jag-mag gold borders, stuck mirrors on the petals that cut the reflections into multiple geometrical shapes. “Gulaab-wali,” DC Poonch had nick-named Chetna, bought all her pyaar-ka-phool Lippan-bottle-art for therapy classes.
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