Em and the big hoom by jerry pinto7/3/2023 ![]() ![]() She has always been what I was supposed to fill on innumerable forms over the years: a housewife. Mine has spent a better part of her life in the kitchen and managing our daily routines, limiting the many possibilities life could have offered. Having lived my formative years in a middle-class family, I look at mothers in a certain way. ![]() You need not call her “aap” and often use “tu”, more intimate in comparison, and it removes the gap that “aap” presupposes. In Gujarat, where I grew up, it is a common practice to not use a respectful address for one’s mother. She discovered with great delight that one does not love one’s children just because they are one’s children but because of the friendship formed while raising them: Marquez writes in Love in the time of Cholera. ![]()
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