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A humourous banter between a mother and a daughter arguing over the perennial problem- 'What have you made for dinner?'
A humourous banter between a mother and a daughter arguing over the perennial problem- ‘What have you made for dinner?’
“Mom, I’m famished. What’s for dinner?”, hollered my daughter as she walked in post her nightly stroll with her buddies.
“It’s stuffed Calamari”, I replied from the kitchen.
Ever the prankster, she retorted, “Kaun si Bimaari?”
“Bimaari nahi, you Bevakoof. It’s Calamari – Squid”, I clarified, amused.
“Oh Squid! Why didn’t you just say so in the first place? I swear Mom, every new season of Master Chef that airs, brings out weird sounding food to the table. Sometimes I feel like Gary, George & Matt have invaded our residential space and have infused their culinary souls into you. Anyway, whatever possessed you to cook a sea monster? You do know that a giant squid tried to sink the Nautilus? (Referring to one of my favourite Jules Verne works ‘Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea’). Don’t you have anything else in the house, maybe slightly less predatory in nature?”, quipped my daughter.
“Well, I do have Mushroom Biryani and Pepper Chicken”, I said feeling rather proud of myself. Working a back to back week leaves me with limited time to indulge in my favourite hobby, that is- cooking. So, when I do get an evening free, I try and make a bit of everything for everyone.
“Mom, Really! Such spicy food! We already know you are a good cook, why don’t you experiment on guests and serve us normal food instead? Or better still experiment on Dad when he is in town. He doesn’t get much opportunity to eat home cooked meals. He will eat anything you cook” , said my daughter rolling her eyes in mock exasperation.
Now irritation set in. Here I had slaved for two hours prepping and cooking such a delicious meal and two minutes of repartee with my child had brought me to the brink of frustration.
“Define normal food? You don’t eat literally three fourths of the vegetables available. You have an issue with pulses. So, tell me how to feed you and what to feed you?”, I countered thoroughly cheesed off.
“Gee Mom chill! You know, make us just something normal”.
“Ugggggghhhhhh“
Needless to say, I was tempted to serve Daal Khichdi for the rest of the week!
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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