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Shining the ball leaves a red grease streak on your whites, and the maidan leaves green knees. Here is how to get both out after a Patna Sunday match.
A puffer jacket washed like a shirt comes out as a thin shell with lumps. Here is how to wash and dry one through a foggy Patna winter.
Diwali candle wax on your kurta or saree lifts out with ice, a blunt knife and a brown paper bag. Hot water only drives it deeper.
Milk, sugar and tannin each stick to cloth in their own way. Here is how to get a Patna chai spill out before you set it for good.
That scratchy label inside your shirt tells you exactly how to wash it. Here is how to read it in five shapes.
Three bites in a straight line on your forearm is khatmal, not a mosquito. They live in your mattress seam, and only heat kills them.
Your house help leaves for her village before Chhath and returns after. Those are the dirtiest two weeks of the Patna year. Plan them in September.
Hot water and a clothesline are what kill woolens in Patna, not age. Here is how to wash a sweater so it still fits you next December.
Your saree goes for dry cleaning and the blouse goes on a hook behind the door. The blouse is the one you cannot replace in an hour.
A water drop leaves a ring on tussar silk because it moves the cloth's own finish. Why Patna is hard on silk, and how to fix the mark.
