My Diary Aches

By Dr. Seema Sarkar

9,Dec.1997

It's been raining continuously for two consecutive days and the maid has taken a day’s leave. I've been doing a lot of work since last night and now I have backache and waist pain. What a peculiar husband I’ve got! He slept till 11am and then after having breakfast, got down. The office was closed, so no work except chatting to his friends on landline phone. He didn’t even ask to help in taking the child with him! I completed all the cooking somehow and then my baby woke up suddenly and I had to carry him. Half of the food was still to be served on the table and the baby was not ready to get down from my lap.

I kept an unbreakable bowl, instead of a bone china one. Carrying the baby in one hand, I kept the bowl on table before my king aka husband and a brittle sound came while putting it down as the table was low and I was unable to bend low due to pains. And lo! The Maharaja burst out that I did it knowingly, threw the bowl outside, got out himself, started kicking it and finally crushed it under his feet. Actually he wanted to crush me under his feet, but being an intelligent man he didn’t want to be framed under domestic violence.

He stayed outside the whole day, enjoying his meals. He himself is so delicate that a slight fever makes him extremely weak ,whereas I, naturally a weak structure should be sturdy and stout. What a JOKE!

By Dr. Seema Sarkar