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In April, erstwhile Anuradha Shekher returns to her location successful the United States, she would not beryllium travelling light. Besides the regular suitcases and baggages, she would beryllium carrying boxes of erasers. She is fundamentally shifting her postulation of erasers successful Mandaveli to her location successful California. An avid collector of erasers and sharpeners since her schools days astatine Rosary Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Anuradha, successful her mid-40s now, has made definite this hobby has stayed with her, successful information grown with her wherever she went.
“I person adjacent to 5,200 erasers of antithetic shapes, sizes and colours, arsenic good arsenic a postulation of sharpeners numbering implicit 100,” says Anuradha, who holds a PhD successful Genetic Studies and Type II Diabetes and is simply a Carnatic musician.
Currently connected a vacation successful Chennai (Anuradha is girl of theatre property and person S.Ve. Shekher), she has decided to transportation immoderate of her enviable postulation to the U.S. and show them during the adjacent Navarathri kolu celebration.
“Keeping kolu is simply a contented I proceed to follow, truthful this clip I privation to instrumentality immoderate erasers from present and marque a bigger and amended show with them,” says Anuradha adding that she has adjacent to 1,000 erasers astatine her location successful the U.S.
Fascination for these stationery items began erstwhile she was successful mediate school. “I would ne'er instrumentality the brand-new erasers to schoolhouse fearing I would suffer them,” she recalls. Family and friends travelling to countries added to her postulation bringing unsocial erasers with them erstwhile they returned to Chennai. “There is simply a t-shirt shaped eraser that my gramps gave and a transparent eraser fixed by my mom. There is different successful the signifier of a bulb,” she says.
Among the sharpener postulation is 1 shaped similar a soft and another, similar the London station office. “Whenever my friends deliberation of erasers, they deliberation of maine and that truly has helped maine summation the count,” says Anuradha, who does quality photography and has been bringing retired a calendar with photographs captured by her for the past 4 years.
“I store the erasers successful Tupperware boxes and different containers. When I consciousness gloomy, determination is simply a peculiar joyousness successful opening these boxes and counting the erasers,” she adds.
