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The orange ring in your bucket is dissolved iron from Patna's groundwater, and bleach makes the stain permanent. Here is what actually lifts it.
An advocate's black coat and white bands take a beating in Patna's heat. Here is what the sweat is doing to them, and how to keep both alive.
You dropped the bag in the corner on Sunday and never unzipped it. Here is what four days of sealed, sweaty clothes does to the rest of your almirah.
The end you breathe through and the end that sweeps the auto floor are the same cloth. Here is how often to wash a dupatta, and how to do it without ruining it.
The white coat you wear on rounds goes from the ward to the canteen to your bed. Here is where the dirt actually sits, and how to get it out.
The gold border on your Durga Puja saree tarnishes in the almirah. Here is why Patna makes it worse and how to store, air and fold it right.
A coal iron has no dial. Here is what it does to your shirt at the Patna press cart, what to send there, and what to never hand over.
Softener leaves a thin layer of grease on every fibre. That is why your towel pushes water around your back instead of taking it away.
Patna's road and metro dust lands on wet clothes and dries inside the weave. Why your whites go grey, and how to dry around it.
The Patna sun bleaches colour out of wet clothes in hours. Here is why darks die on the roof, and how to dry them without losing them.
