Opening the door to Prajakta Potnis

Prajakta Potnis describes her relationship with the doorbell as ‘feeling responsible to be answerable’. Often, in cities like Mumbai, crime comes to light when the doorbell goes unanswered. But if you’re alive and kicking and still not answering the door,
Gitanjali Dang and Khanabadosh, Firstpost, August 2, 2019

Sylvia Plath wrote her first tragic poem when she was 14. The poem commemorates a pastel drawing made by Plath, and accidentally smudged by her grandmother. Plath was showing the still life to her grandmother when the doorbell rang. On her way to the door, the grandmother took off her apron, tossed it on the table, accidentally sweeping the drawing and blurring bits of it.

 

“Feeling responsible to be answerable,” says Prajakta first up about her on-going relationship with the doorbell. What would happen if Prajakta didn’t get the door?

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