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Meera鈥檚 jaw tightened. 鈥淚鈥檒l add less next time, Ma.鈥�
鈥淎nd the tailor called. The blouse fitting is tomorrow. You鈥檒l come with me? Or is your phone more important?鈥� Savitri鈥檚 eyes flicked to Meera鈥檚 mobile, where a WhatsApp group for 鈥淵oung Homemakers of Andheri East鈥� was buzzing with memes and recipes. -Xprime4u.Pro-.Slim.Bhabhi.2024.720p.HEVC.WeB-D...
She heard Rohan鈥檚 soft snore from the bedroom. She heard the ceiling fan鈥檚 uneven click. And she heard, faintly, the neighbor鈥檚 baby cry鈥攁nother woman beginning her night shift. Meera鈥檚 jaw tightened
Meera didn鈥檛 argue. She had learned, after a decade, that argument was a luxury for women with separate kitchens. Instead, she chopped onions finer than her feelings, and added green chilies for her own quiet rebellion. You鈥檒l come with me
At 11:30 PM, the house was finally still. The geyser had been forgotten. The volcano would be fixed with flour paste in the morning. Meera sat on the kitchen floor, the last one awake, massaging oil into her hair鈥攁 ritual her own mother had taught her. Take care of yourself , her mother had said, because no one else will.
鈥淜avya! Aarav! Utho beta !鈥� she called out, her voice a practiced blend of tenderness and threat. From the bedroom, no response. Only the muffled sounds of a YouTube video playing under a blanket.
She also cleaned the smudge of last night鈥檚 chai from the marble floor, paid the milk bill via a UPI app her mother-in-law still called 鈥渢hat magic phone thing,鈥� and reminded herself to buy harad (myrobalan) for her father-in-law鈥檚 digestion. No one thanked her. No one noticed. This was the family鈥檚 oxygen鈥攊nvisible, essential, and taken for granted.
