I never liked cooking except boiling water, making Maggi and green tea
for me from the very moment I stepped out to survive in Charles’s Darwin
ecosystem.
For me making round chapatti was most difficult task than cracking an
IIT/UPSC exam. In the different phases of life-cycle for a female like staying in
parental place, visiting ancestral hometown, hostel room-mates, flat mates, in-laws
house, staying with your husband, I have seen different kind of ladies/girls who
can make round chapatti at every normal/abnormal condition even if they have to
cook on rice cooker, induction top, tawa, angethi and every time it was perfect
chapatti with round in shape.
I have heard from almost everyone that it’s necessary to know how to
make round chapatti to make your mother in law, husband and your kids happy
endlessly.When I got married I presumed that at least for heaven’s sake now I will
get a practice of at making chapatti which is an utmost requirement
of any North Indian not by choice but by so called societal pressure.
I am happily married for 2 years now without the skill of preparing
round chapatti by now but it still haunts my mind that Do this still matter to
the society, friends or relatives ?
Do this still give me a certification for happy married life?
Do this still decide my efficiency of handling a married life?
And when I asked these question to my
HUSBAND he said: “You are my wife, not a cook and then I got performance appraisal without a merit in my life.”
Moral of the story : “A Mango tree never gets insecure of a banana tree that bears fruits through the year and is always in the market. Know your value.”