I remember some of the stories that my grandmother used to tell about her life in Jaipur, before they migrated to Pakistan in 1947. I don't really know about the present, but according to her, there were a lot of Monkeys in the city back in the days when they used to live there.
I personally found the story about Monkeys and Jaipur very funny and was always curious in knowing how it was to live among all those Monkeys. A greater reason for my curiosity every time she discussed India, was my interest in knowing how life would have been in the Indian Subcontinent back then when Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Christians and others lived together.
"She once told me a scene that took place at her Phuppo (her aunt) who was making chapatis for lunch. After a long battle with the dough, trying to make several perfectly shaped rotis, she had finally wrapped them in a cloth to keep them hot and prevent them from hardening (Yes! Desi chapatis literally get hard and dry if left out).
After all the hard work, she placed them on the kitchen counter and left the kitchen to complete other domestic chores. She had left the kitchen window open.
To her dismay, when she came back to the kitchen the scene was absolutely different. All the time she was out of the room, doing other chores, the room was not left unattended. There were monkeys safe guarding the kitchen. Or I should say, they came to attack the chapatis.
Yes! there were monkey in her kitchen and they had unwrapped the cloth which covered the chapatis. She panicked. Tried to hush them. Screamed. Yelled at them. And then, all hell broke lose. The monkeys became chaotic. Skillfully, they gathered as many chapatis as they could and escaped the kitchen through the open window, which acted as a doorway for them to do this crime."
Imagine how much anger would have prevailed in her as those mischievous monkeys took away the food she cooked. Now she had to make the chapatis all again. Have you or someone you know ever been a victim of losing all your hard work at the hands of someone else? If so, then feel free to share it with me and lighten up your sorrow.
If you have any such interesting stories then please share them in the comment section. Thank you and goodbye. :)
I personally found the story about Monkeys and Jaipur very funny and was always curious in knowing how it was to live among all those Monkeys. A greater reason for my curiosity every time she discussed India, was my interest in knowing how life would have been in the Indian Subcontinent back then when Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Christians and others lived together.
"She once told me a scene that took place at her Phuppo (her aunt) who was making chapatis for lunch. After a long battle with the dough, trying to make several perfectly shaped rotis, she had finally wrapped them in a cloth to keep them hot and prevent them from hardening (Yes! Desi chapatis literally get hard and dry if left out).
After all the hard work, she placed them on the kitchen counter and left the kitchen to complete other domestic chores. She had left the kitchen window open.
To her dismay, when she came back to the kitchen the scene was absolutely different. All the time she was out of the room, doing other chores, the room was not left unattended. There were monkeys safe guarding the kitchen. Or I should say, they came to attack the chapatis.
Yes! there were monkey in her kitchen and they had unwrapped the cloth which covered the chapatis. She panicked. Tried to hush them. Screamed. Yelled at them. And then, all hell broke lose. The monkeys became chaotic. Skillfully, they gathered as many chapatis as they could and escaped the kitchen through the open window, which acted as a doorway for them to do this crime."
Imagine how much anger would have prevailed in her as those mischievous monkeys took away the food she cooked. Now she had to make the chapatis all again. Have you or someone you know ever been a victim of losing all your hard work at the hands of someone else? If so, then feel free to share it with me and lighten up your sorrow.
If you have any such interesting stories then please share them in the comment section. Thank you and goodbye. :)
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