Chapter 2
After a whole day’s physical and mental strain, she was still in the kitchen, cleaning and readying the kitchen for the next day’s chores.
She washed the mixie vessel and the non-stick pan, which
would be short-lived in the hands of the maid whose main weapons were Sabena and The tablet foil. She then
added just a ladle of curd to a vessel full of milk and let it rest in a corner
of the granite slab which acted as her regular work table. She transferred the
remaining curd into a smaller vessel and put it near the mixie, which was the
only empty spot nearest to the Kitchen door. She still had to put that day’s
washed vessels in their allocated locations and fill the “vessel tub” (a tub
allocated for vessels to be carried away by the maid) with those to be washed
the next day, then ensure nothing unnecessary was still outside, put if any,
into the fridge, wipe the granite and gas stove clean without a dot, switch off
the gas, put a couple of almonds in a cup of water for Nidhi – she would bring
the entire 800 sq. ft. of ceiling down if those 2 almonds weren’t right; she
was trying hard to bring herself into a habit and it immediately became Akila’s
duty to “encourage” her – and close it with the right lid allotted for that
particular cup, have her usual tablets, change and then talk to her husband at
length on the day’s happenings and eventually, hopefully, sleep for a while,
for she had to wake up early the next morning.
Being from her village’s “Big house”, and yet traditionally
rooted, she got her ways from the maternal grandmother and was quite proud of
it. Amidst all that hullabaloo, she smiled.
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