mera paas maa hain..

It’s mother’s day for the country for the world! Everywhere we have card shops luring you in to buy the glitzy card to express your love, adoration and affection to your mater’. I call her mataji; Mother India, mom, ma and when I need her MAAAAAAA! No matter how old you are, how many greys you have, you will always need that unquestionable, acceptance which is frankly with no one else.

Every relationship will judge, question the motive, and the love given is hesitant but a mother and her child, no wonder this bond is pure, divine and angelic. She brings up her child with love, sacrifice and I used to laugh when other women said Oh my heart beats for two, or I know about my kids intuitively before hand. I can read faces; I can read the body language.

All of the above and more are true. There is a status on face book that says, describe God, and one child said all the alphabets together cant begin to describe HIM, well in the same fashion any amount of permutations and combinations cant begin to describe my mother. We all have our special memories with her. I have mine and they are invaluable. A day to commemorate her is indeed a special moment. Pamper her, spoil her rotten! The revolution is here and it started with the Amitabh Bachan and Shashi Kapoor starrer Dewaar where, he says,” mera paas Maa hain!”

This phenomenon is not limited to the rich or the socially upwardly mobile but its infiltrated the poorer sections too. The kids in the school I run have started helping out their mothers as a way to say thank you, they have started peeling onions, garlic, bringing in water from the pump, putting in the bag, shoes in the room or just plain old clearing up the room. It’s not about the fancy nail spa, or the facial coupon you gift her to make her feel special, it’s the daily chores to make her life easier that one needs to do. Show her you love her everyday and don’t take her for granted. A hug is the easiest and is free to give and comes with a life long guarantee.  Call her up, hug her and tell her she makes the world go round for you, as she is your bedrock! And you say Mera paas maa hain…