Woman: Then and Now

By Raja Sharma

She keeps quiet and enters the kitchen.

“Is this a house? Look at the condition of the rooms. Everything is in a kind of mess. Look at the dirty clothes lying in that corner, and toys scattered all over the floor. Nothing remains proper in this house...”

She begins to prepare tea for him in the kitchen, but her silence continues to be with her.

“Oh, look at this bed. One can hardly sit on this bed. How can I rest here? It is stinking of urine of the children. You never dry this mattress in sunlight to remove this stench...I believe that your nose remains blocked and you don’t smell anything...It is like a hell...”
She adds milk and tea powder to the boiling water.

“I am asking you! Are you paying attention? What do you do whole day? Whenever I see you are sitting with these dirty children. They look so ugly and so poorly dressed. My mother gave birth to seven children but our house was always neat and clean. You have two little children and look at the condition of your house. It seems as if a dozen children live in this house...It looks like a refugee shelter to me...”

She enters the room and gives him a nice cup of tea.

No response from the wife.

Woman: Then and Now
Copyright
Chapter One: Six Years after Marriage
Chapter Two: Twelve Years after the Marriage
Chapter Three: Power Struggle

• Language: English
• Publisher: Raja Sharma
• Release date: Mar 31, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310673764

Raja Sharma

Raja Sharma is a retired college lecturer.He has taught English Literature to University students for more than two decades.His students are scattered all over the world, and it is noticeable that he is in contact with more than ninety thousand of his students.

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Woman: Then and Now

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Woman: Then and Now

Raja Sharma

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Chapter One: Six Years after Marriage

Things have obviously changed a lot, for every evening, now, when he comes back home, he is loaded with millions of questions and complains.

The door opens after about five minutes. He has already pressed the button of the door bell three times. Without looking at her, he enters the house and begins to give vent to his anger and frustration, Is it necessary that the door should be opened after at least three bells?

She does not answer.

What mountain do you happen to be moving that you don’t come to open the door after the first bell? says he, throwing his files on the table in the living room.

No response from the wife.

"A man comes back home from office after eight hours of hard work and half an hour’s tiring ride in a crowded bus, and then he has to wait at the door of his house for five to ten