Diary of a husband,wife and maid-servant

I am a resident of South Kolkata and I am blessed with two beautiful kids and a short tempered wife. We live in a 3BHK apartment and enjoy a very ordinary life. Being a banking clerk I have to endure a lot of pressure. I have a burden of several debts and a house-building loan. Moreover my wife’s expenses and increasing education fees concerns me a lot.

On a fine Sunday, I felt some changes in the attitude of my wife. Her gruesome attitude was very indelible for me to adopt. I soon realized that it was due to the absence the maid-servant Bimla.

What can be more worse than it?
Sunday morning and your maid-servant is on holiday!

It was 9’0’ clock and I received a cup of cold tea with some peculiar taste. Without arguing with my tempestuous wife, I went out for the market to buy some food.
I love my wife and have always followed what she says.

For I believe “one has to be wise enough to run a family”.

Bimla , a women of 30s has two children and an ailing husband
Her husband used to work in the local Gun-factory. When the factory was shut, he gave up all hopes and succumbed himself with all sorts of gambling and alcohols.
On seeing her family conditions she started to work as a maid servant along with her daughter in five houses. Her son who studies in a vernacular school has acquired all sorts of bad habits like his father.
On asking one day she said “what is the use of studies saheeb when she will get married to a Dubai-wala in a few months”.
Really,it’s a shameful picture in India when a 15yr girl falls in prey with these beastly men from Dubai who promises a good lifestyle in the name of prostitution.
Bimla’s daughter Sweta, a very quiet and a bright chap since she was a kid. She follows what her mother says and never express her unfulfilled desires.

She thinks,"being poor is just like cancer," it goes on multiplying every day.

I have always seen pain in Bimla’s eyes; the way she manages household, her husband and her two children is worth praising.

On the other hand I notice my neighbors and my wife, busy finding out mistakes and faults of Bimla. Whenever I go with her in some marriage party or public gathering I find them talking all sorts of maid related problems.

Oooh, I just get pissed off sometimes!
Why they are so much obsessed with their maids?

Whenever I try to help or assist her with some extra bucks I find myself quarreling with my wife. She often says “they are bad, why do you show so much sympathy towards them”?

Anyways I feel that Bimla and other maids are not slaves nor they should be treated as servants. They are the ones who make our lives less complicated.
As an avid reader I do feel we should have some sympathy towards them. Let’s not treat them as an outsider but a person who cares us, serves us and stays with us as a good company.