What rain today! As if the pent up clouds couldn't take it anymore and burst out suddenly, it's raining like cats and dogs, complete with lightning and thunder. It'll of course make our stinking garbage piles even worse. It's as if we are just sitting and waiting for an epidemic to break out.
I think today's women are really superwomen. They may be teased by Romeos on the road, their pretty dresses may be stained with paan spat on by sadistic drivers(it happens in Hyderabad), they may be thrown out of moving trains by merciless devils, they may be harassed verbally or physically at home or work, but they go on with their work from morning to night, everyday. As I walk towards office every morning, I meet so many of them; a young lady pushing a fruit-cart, a middle-aged one chanting some hymns on the way to her office, an older one pushing the garbage-cart, mothers carrying their young ones to school, group of young ladies from north Karnataka talking animatedly and looking very sunny as they go towards their construction-site, house-maids of all hues walking briskly towards work, ladies in shops smiling benignly as if they know everyone who crosses their shops, teachers of government and private schools trying their best to keep the bunch of kids in order, women like me and so on and I feel so proud of them. I smile at some of them everyday and I feel we understand each other's aspirations and hopes well.
If my mother saw this, she would complain that like everybody else, I too have forgotten the homemakers. But no, that's not true. I know that is much tougher than a lot of outside jobs and many of us are just happy to get out of it and have some 'free' time for ourselves in the office.
"BarabaruTTa Raayana Kudure KaTTe"(As time passed, Royal horse became a donkey) was a favourite phrase of our teachers in school to reprimand someone who was slipping and I have to use it towards my daughter now.She is learning new words very fast and the first thing she has learnt to use effectively is Beda!(No). A month ago, if I asked her to switch on/off a fan or a light, she would do very willingly. Now the novelty of it seems to have worn off and she's asking me to do it!!!
I think today's women are really superwomen. They may be teased by Romeos on the road, their pretty dresses may be stained with paan spat on by sadistic drivers(it happens in Hyderabad), they may be thrown out of moving trains by merciless devils, they may be harassed verbally or physically at home or work, but they go on with their work from morning to night, everyday. As I walk towards office every morning, I meet so many of them; a young lady pushing a fruit-cart, a middle-aged one chanting some hymns on the way to her office, an older one pushing the garbage-cart, mothers carrying their young ones to school, group of young ladies from north Karnataka talking animatedly and looking very sunny as they go towards their construction-site, house-maids of all hues walking briskly towards work, ladies in shops smiling benignly as if they know everyone who crosses their shops, teachers of government and private schools trying their best to keep the bunch of kids in order, women like me and so on and I feel so proud of them. I smile at some of them everyday and I feel we understand each other's aspirations and hopes well.
If my mother saw this, she would complain that like everybody else, I too have forgotten the homemakers. But no, that's not true. I know that is much tougher than a lot of outside jobs and many of us are just happy to get out of it and have some 'free' time for ourselves in the office.
"BarabaruTTa Raayana Kudure KaTTe"(As time passed, Royal horse became a donkey) was a favourite phrase of our teachers in school to reprimand someone who was slipping and I have to use it towards my daughter now.She is learning new words very fast and the first thing she has learnt to use effectively is Beda!(No). A month ago, if I asked her to switch on/off a fan or a light, she would do very willingly. Now the novelty of it seems to have worn off and she's asking me to do it!!!
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