Cycle of Cliches
If you saw someone taking these long drags, and if you smoked yourself, you couldn’t possibly resist the urge for a drag or light up a cigarette yourself.
“What, ‘so what’, kela?” I too, naturally, felt the urge for a drag, but the thought that we were doing something which nobody of our age tried within the four walls of our house, held me back. Rather, I lost my cool and tried to snatch the cigarette from his hand. And kela came out spontaneously! Kela, means banana in Hindi, but nobody knows its etymological connection with the invectives used in the Assamese language. It erupts as an additional word, and can comfortably pass on as any one or more of the parts of speech in an angry, irrit