HERITAGE
I SEARCHED high and low, but what I was looking for was as elusive as the fugitive Guptas.
The local grocery shops, large supermarket chains and warehouse stores that I visited were all out of stock.
Yet there was a time when the object of my hunt was as commonplace as Visvin Reddy’s condemnation after each fuel price hike.
Brasso, the metal cleaning solution with a 120-year history, is what I have been hankering for and it is nowhere to be found in my neighbourhood. The product that housewives trusted for decades to keep brass items bright and shiny is in short supply, according to store managers.
I have come
