Inside the gate the maintenance staff, three or four men, sat idly on a charpoy. |
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Going into the servants' common room, he found Ghulam Rasool lying peacefully on a charpoy, his unlit hookah beside him. |
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And with a creaking of its rickety string-bound frame, Sarju rises from the adjacent charpoy, steps between a dozen curled-up canine forms, and begins his working-day. It starts early because he has two jobs. |
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Rezak sat down on the edge of a charpoy, dangling his short legs. |
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He hurriedly carried a charpoy onto the terrace in front of the stone cooking hut, put a pillow on it, ran inside and lit a fire in the hearth, then brought out a table, wiping it with a rag. |
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Here is a charpoy on which two can sit, and it is possible that there may, from time to time, be food in that platter. |
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