1)What could be the reason for the drawer remaining locked for the close to 25 years?

ANS) The above question is given from the lesson “A Drawer Full Of Happiness”, which is written
by “Aanchal Jagnani”, is an article published on march 25,2018 in “Open page, The Hindu”. She is
not a regular writer, she is occasional writer those who write articles in newspapers rarely and also
publish short stories occasionally.

The drawer that was not opened for 25 years had 1990s cosmetics in it. It had metal bhidi
stamps with small containers of coloured bhindi powder, wooden hairpins, mascara, eye-shadow kit,
blush, small wooden kumkum cases, liquid foundation, and a collection of.

One of the probable reasons as to why the drawer would have been locked for 25 years and
was not opened by anyone was because the keys may have been lost and no one attempted to make a
new key for it or bothered to know what was kept in the locked box.

Also, the person to whom the drawer belonged must have died and for the sake of safe-
keeping, nobody touched the drawer after that. The custom-made dressing table when it was
brought, this one particular drawer remained locked for so many years and there was no matching key
by which one could open the drawer. It was after the author’s sister visited her with their niece, who
had the inane urge to open this one drawer from the old dressing table, that was locked for nearly to
25 years.