things I shouldn't have bought at Lajpat Nagar

A kurta in a color described by the seller as "dusty rose" that is, in any natural light, a clear and unambiguous orange. Four sets of matching hangers. I do not know who I thought I was becoming. A clay pot for plants that has not had a plant in it for nine months and now holds my charging cables. A small brass elephant my mother would call "nice" and my friends call "where did you get that" in a tone that is not a compliment. A churidar that requires dry cleaning. I do not dry-clean things. Two kurtas in the same blue, from different shops, twenty minutes apart, because I forgot I had already bought one. Nothing from the shelf of genuine regret, which was a bookshelf, which I wanted, which would not fit in the auto.