These beds are portable by necessity. A marriage, a migration, a monsoon flood — you lift the bed and move. Indian design has always known: home is not a place. Home is what you can carry.
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There is a story from the 1947 Partition. A family fleeing Lahore carries nothing but a charpoy. On the other side, in an Amritsar refugee camp, they unfold it. The grandmother lies down and says, “This is the same sun. This is the same string. We have not moved.”