The Wedding Alarms

er life on her own terms and conditions. And she was least bothered by her husband and his commitment. He did not mind putting me in t

reason behind it. There was no one with whom I could garner any information regarding it. And there he would give the bullshit reason to prevent me from attending those parties would be that decent

t bother to discuss me, and likewise, they did not bother to serve me. I could hear the giggling and all the noise of the

. I was left with not even a single piece of clothing on my body. Plus, he darkens the room. There was one of his maids named Malti, who took adv

brought me good food to eat. But I felt uncomfortable when she made weird demands on me, like keeping my eyes open while making love. She did not like the way I protested sleeping unclothed next to her when Anirudh was out of the station. And many times, she demanded me to take a bath with her in the middle of the night. Aft

njoy sleeping with her husband much. She got that pleasure from me. According to her, she was the man of the house because she made money and ran the house, and her husband was good for nothing. He just thrashe

if I tried to complain about her. According to her and what I could perceive, she was their confidant. And they would never trust me over her no matter

ful to make my life easier. She always tried to bring some good food for me to eat. She knew I wanted to witness

certainly tell that they did the same sort of talking, more or less, as middle-class ladies do. Yes, they certainly use fancy English words while talking in Hindi, and they did not forget to a

ly. A number of times, I tried to kill myself, but I could not gather the courage to extinguish myself and ended up before their demand. But at the same time, I used to get two diffe

e. He gave me an elaborate bath after he left and used a lot of cuss words. I could see her eyes reddened w

ing me with the belt. Anirudh did not utter a word and left the room immediately. Perhaps she knew that she would not

with her to find out what happened to Malti, but I could not gather any information regarding her because she was deaf. And in that way, the ch