#SecretDoor

I had only heard of hidden doors and secret corridors until one day I discovered one such hidden door behind a closet in my house. It was as if it came straight out of a kid’s chronicle where the wardrobe opens to reveal a clandestine universe.

One day my mother wanted to clean the closet in the storehouse and for that, she would have to first empty it. We had stuffed all woolen garments and blankets in this closet when we had initially moved into this house about two years back. Since the closet was in the storeroom, seldom would it be used, therefore we had decided to stuff things that would not be required on a daily basis, such as woolen clothes and blankets.



I lent mother a helping hand by keeping all the woolen stuff on a cot nearby so that she could start wiping the interiors that had not been touched for the last two years. Since the closet was really big, I took charge of cleaning the upper shelves while she focused on the lower ones. The upper part of the closet was high and wide and...