‘Aunty, please don’t generalize. We spent four hours in Panjim today buying
gifts for you. My parents did whatever Krish asked us to do.’
‘What?’ my mother said.
Aunty, you have insulted them. They have not trapped anyone. They were
dead against Krish to begin with. And now they have accepted him, they’d like
some dignity.’
‘I am not.....’ my mother started to talk.
‘OK, enough,’ I said.
Both the women turned to me.
‘Get your parents here,’ I said, ‘let’s talk this straight. Everyone has hurt
everyone.’
‘No Krish, today my parents didn’t do anything,’ Ananya said.
My mother went into the bathroom.
‘Ananya, try and understand,’ I whispered. ‘You push my mother into a corner,
it will get worse. Let’s make it a mutual apology.’ I walked Ananya to the door.
‘I don’t like this,’ Ananya said at the door.
‘Bring everyone here, please,’ I said.
I came back into the room. My mother had washed her face.
‘I’ve called all of them here. Let’s have a frank talk,’ I said.
She kept quiet.
‘What’s up, mom? Say something,’ I said. I wanted my mother to vent out
before Ananya arrived with her parents.
‘You saw Ananya? Have you seen any girl talk to her mother-in-law like that?’
my mother demanded.
‘She is a little feminist type, I admit,’ I said.
‘She is telling me to apologise. Can you imagine Minti talking to Duke’s mother
like that?’
nora
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