large-family

We arrived from New York after a daylong slog through airports and planes and traffic. It was 10: 00 p.m. local time, but my body had no idea if it was night or day. Krishna was hungry, so I found some leftover dosa batter in the kitchen and started making one for her. Next thing I knew, my grandmother was by my side, commandeering the griddle. __et me do it,_ she said. __ou don__ know where anything is._ I insisted, but she won, even though by then she cooked with only one arm, the other still paralyzed from the stroke. Then my aunt Papu came in and yelped, __ou__e making your grandma cook?_ She was appalled. __t__ ten at night!_ Papu took over, my grandmother wouldn__ leave, and my uncle Ravi entered the fray. __ook at you,_ he said. __ou__e supposed to be this famous food person and you__e making these women cook at ten o__lock!_ I quickly remembered how it felt to live with so many people. Every move you make is scrutinized. You get up and it__ __here are you going?_ You come back and it__ __hy are you wearing that blouse? I like the other one better._ You walk outside and someone calls from the veranda, __on__ go that way, there__ too much sun!_ It was exasperating and suffocating and God, I had missed it.