To The Real Housewives of Hyderabad
In December 2014 I was in Hyderabad and I was hounded about not having children even after two years of marriage. Four months later, I am greeted with the same intrusive questions. Fortunately, I am not the only recipient of this negative welcome. The real housewives of Hyderabad (yes I am talking of all those aunties in the neighborhood who could also be related to you) strangely have an agenda against young people these days. First they pick on you for not studying engineering, they then pick on you for marrying ‘late’ (ahem… 27 is not late), then they try to make you feel guilty about the sadness you are inflicting on your parents by not having children yourself. To all of you aunties, I am still living for myself and I like it that way. So dear aunties, do not pester me about not having children. Do not irritate me by asking ‘oh now you have bought a house in South Africa, so you are settling down there’ - well, what do you think? You do not need to be curious about h