It was the guest room in the palatial house we lived in, in Bandra, Mumbai. My mother had got the walls painted a delicate shade of lilac, almost the colour of these lilacs.
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On the bedside tables were tall white metal candlesticks converted into lamps, and with white lampshades. There was a beautiful rosewood vanity table/dressing table against a wall, which too, as I seem to remember, had white cotton circular doilies on them. That was the done way of dressing up the vanity table those days.
I then took a walk through the house and the thought came up, that sadly I can no longer check out how true my memories are, because that house is no more, having given way to a huge flat.