Category Relationships

‘My mother is a bundle of ‘No’es!’

He gave me one look with all the anger his four-year-old eyes could muster and sputtered, ‘In this whole world you are ……’ I could see him searching for the most indicting word to describe his heartless mother; ‘….the baddest mother!’ he finished and burst into tears.

Winging home

He still made unannounced nocturnal entries but I began recognising his friends’ clothes soon. In fact, when he came back in his own clothes one time, I actually enquired as to whether he had quarrelled with his friends. And that bag of laundry!

So far, yet so close…

The joint family has evolved from the staying-under-one-roof concept and settled in the hearts of the family members.