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dna reader and travel enthusiast Malabika Ahuja talks of her souvenir collection

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The first time I travelled to London about 13 years ago, the cute little brownstone miniatures in souvenir shops stole my heart, but their price tags put my dilemma to rest and I came back home with fridge magnets of a red telephone booth and a double decker bus. From there began my love for fridge magnets from my travels across the globe. The Amsterdam houses, Heidi, cowbells, chalets and cuckoo clocks of Switzerland, Singapore Merlion, the surfing bays of Gold Coast, beer mugs from Brussels, casino dice from Macau, apes of Borneo, clock tower of Prague, tuk-tuks of Bangkok and many more started appearing as magnets on my refrigerator.

There were times when I did not get time to see the cities I visited on work, but I saw the sights through the magnets I picked up at airport souvenir shops.

When the weight of the magnets got too heavy for my fridge door to bear, not to mention the turmeric and oil stains, I decided to display them on the whiteboard in my office cabin. That in hindsight was a very smart move. Being from the travel fraternity, my friends and colleagues admired my collection and started adding to it as and when they travelled. I owe half the collection to Arvind Tandon, a dear friend, who helped me build the collection.

As the collection grew, I kept changing the display based on different themes or messages. The colourful, vibrant board attracted several visitors from corporate guests, to office boys and cleaners for a peek into my little world. My prized possessions are the wine and grapes from France, the beautiful Cleopatra and Monalisa, lovely lasses of Turkmenistan, Elvis on a vinyl and of course, my childhood buddy from the world of books—Heidi.

 

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