Leave it to them to not break the tradition.

• Posted In : 2020-Oct-30

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS!

“Hey, Girls!” Mrs. Isha Shah exclaimed looking at her gal pals through the laptop screen. Zoom kitty parties were the ‘New Normal’ apparently for these women who met each other on the 21st of every month. Leave it to them to not break the tradition. Besides meeting each other for the kitty parties each month, they regularly met for high-tea outside. This is how they kept themselves busy, the group of five extraordinary women, three of whom had given up on their professional careers to be at home and look after their children while their hubby dearest went out to work. The remaining two never had the choice to work outside and have a professional career, married off at an early age to run households of men who were given that choice. 

The zoom kitty party began as usual with the ladies chatting about everything that they had been up to since their last session while Mrs. Shah’s pet dog and Mrs. Patni’s husband made noise in the background. Everyone was used to it by now, just like the way they were used to everything they’d to give up and compromise with. So much so that it felt as if some things that existed never actually did. But there was something different about this particular kitty party, there was an odd sense of exhaustion on the women’s faces and their voices. Mrs. Shah said she felt lonely as her husband was working from home, her son was engaged in an internship while her daughter was studying in the States. She’d given up her job more than a decade ago as an accountant but now it just didn’t feel right as everyone that she’d done it for at that time, now just seemed to have lives of their own outside of the house. Everyone except her. Mrs. Iyer was tired of constantly having to look up at her husband’s face for money to run the house. It was embarrassing for the woman who’d been drawing a salary of forty lakhs every year up until three years ago when she’d to take a back seat to look after her newborn. Mrs. Darsha Patni and Mrs. Kakoli Dutta quietly listened to their friends talk about the time when they enjoyed similar privileges as their husbands, these two ladies usually kept quiet when such topics were brought up. They’d never had any first-hand experience working outside their homes and therefore didn’t have any input to provide either. The two often felt left out when such topics were brought up and pondered what life would have been like had they been given the chance to work outside. When Mrs. Patni saw her husband talking in corporate jargon over calls, how she wished she could do that as well just to see how it felt, to be able to speak like that, and assert a commanding presence.
 

Seeing and hearing the ladies talk about their inhibitions and sacrifices, we get an insight into what actually goes behind closed doors. Seemingly happy closed doors. Shut tight to restrict anyone from breaking traditions. Leave it to them to not break the tradition.

Author -    Keyuriba Sarvaiya

Lover of books and winter. An aspiring writer & filmmaker with a weird soul.

Concept  - Prajwal Navnage

Sophomore student, based in Bombay; avid reader, a human being with a dynamic verve, always on toes to plunge into new deals to discover the intricate folds of life

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