This book is a journey of a working couple with their varied experiences of having Housemaids as a necessity. The book is a sweet, sour & savory tryst with the different breeds of house helps.
It is an inspiration to pen down the journey as most of us in the corporate world today lean very heavily on maids for our daily survival. Most of the episodes & incidents would be so much common that the reader would feel as if it is their own story. It will definitely bring a smile to everyone to find similarities in their life sketch. We may belong to different social backgrounds, financial segments, professional domains, demographics but this book will relate to all on their personal experiences. We cannot escape the huge strata of the maid community & survive without them so I would also like to appreciate them for their support & hard work. This book would have been a dream if not for their contribution.
Once you are blessed with a new born, the support & requirement of a House help is overwhelming & it seems to be one stop solution to all our problems of cooking, managing home, upkeep of the house, small relevant market runs & above all babysitting. We are all very scared with the thought of leaving the baby at a Creche & prefer to have someone at home under the supervision of our elders. We were also inhibited with similar thoughts & conflicting resolutions to finally arrive at hiring house helps for our kids.
It looked all well settled & satisfying when we booked our first house help thru a very professionally run agency at Hyderabad. We felt like we had won ourselves a trophy since we had many colleagues still struggling to figure it out. Soon we realized that our enthusiasm & joy was short-lived. We ended up playing second fiddle to most of our house helps as they took control of the home & our lives in their kingdom.
There were episodes which when reflected now, seem so silly that the solutions are readily available. But we were challenged, myriad & deranged then to overcome these. Our over indulgence with this breed created a fear psychosis of incompetence within us. We were scared to manage our family without them being around till we finally decided to take the bull by its horn. But the Bull had its run by then.
We were very cautious & careful during the 2nd Innings of the test i.e when Khyat (our 2nd child) arrived. With little time spent on the support, we were less scarred & the damage done was much controlled. The Creche seemed a better option though it had its own pitfalls. Creche owners tend to take you for granted after sometime & the vigil & monitoring level drops. All in the family is what they say.
We had a huge joint family staying at Nagpur during our childhood & schooling days. Though my dad had a bank job, we spent most of our learning years at Nagpur. All my uncles, aunts, grandparents & cousins would assemble twice a year at our hometown for summer vacations & diwali celebrations. Slowly with times, everybody moved out & we lived with our grandparents. Those days, there was never a challenge on the household work as all the ladies would manage it so effortlessly. Truly accomplished & god gifted, they never looked worried & overburdened. Our dads hardly contributed to our upbringing except for our report cards signature & spanking for poor results. Today as an anecdote, both the parents share the responsibility of housekeeping & babysitting but still struggle to balance with their jobs. Times change & so does an expectation as our kids now demand equal time & adulation from both the parents.
So true to the current times & coming generations, pls accept the small travesties of life with the maids.
It is an inspiration to pen down the journey as most of us in the corporate world today lean very heavily on maids for our daily survival. Most of the episodes & incidents would be so much common that the reader would feel as if it is their own story. It will definitely bring a smile to everyone to find similarities in their life sketch. We may belong to different social backgrounds, financial segments, professional domains, demographics but this book will relate to all on their personal experiences. We cannot escape the huge strata of the maid community & survive without them so I would also like to appreciate them for their support & hard work. This book would have been a dream if not for their contribution.
Once you are blessed with a new born, the support & requirement of a House help is overwhelming & it seems to be one stop solution to all our problems of cooking, managing home, upkeep of the house, small relevant market runs & above all babysitting. We are all very scared with the thought of leaving the baby at a Creche & prefer to have someone at home under the supervision of our elders. We were also inhibited with similar thoughts & conflicting resolutions to finally arrive at hiring house helps for our kids.
It looked all well settled & satisfying when we booked our first house help thru a very professionally run agency at Hyderabad. We felt like we had won ourselves a trophy since we had many colleagues still struggling to figure it out. Soon we realized that our enthusiasm & joy was short-lived. We ended up playing second fiddle to most of our house helps as they took control of the home & our lives in their kingdom.
There were episodes which when reflected now, seem so silly that the solutions are readily available. But we were challenged, myriad & deranged then to overcome these. Our over indulgence with this breed created a fear psychosis of incompetence within us. We were scared to manage our family without them being around till we finally decided to take the bull by its horn. But the Bull had its run by then.
We were very cautious & careful during the 2nd Innings of the test i.e when Khyat (our 2nd child) arrived. With little time spent on the support, we were less scarred & the damage done was much controlled. The Creche seemed a better option though it had its own pitfalls. Creche owners tend to take you for granted after sometime & the vigil & monitoring level drops. All in the family is what they say.
We had a huge joint family staying at Nagpur during our childhood & schooling days. Though my dad had a bank job, we spent most of our learning years at Nagpur. All my uncles, aunts, grandparents & cousins would assemble twice a year at our hometown for summer vacations & diwali celebrations. Slowly with times, everybody moved out & we lived with our grandparents. Those days, there was never a challenge on the household work as all the ladies would manage it so effortlessly. Truly accomplished & god gifted, they never looked worried & overburdened. Our dads hardly contributed to our upbringing except for our report cards signature & spanking for poor results. Today as an anecdote, both the parents share the responsibility of housekeeping & babysitting but still struggle to balance with their jobs. Times change & so does an expectation as our kids now demand equal time & adulation from both the parents.
So true to the current times & coming generations, pls accept the small travesties of life with the maids.
