Life is easy kya karein

My Saree blouse tailor Manhar Bhai is a very important person in my life. I started wearing sarees at work. The most important thing while wearing a saree is the fit of your saree blouse. The saree blouse gives us the chest, the posture, the subtle show of the collar bones and the back. The depth of the neck of the blouse depended on how much cleavage you wanted to show. Some liked low backs in their blouse and some liked low plunging necklines. The blouses were made of Rubia two by two which was pure cotton or silk. Later a fabric called 'lizzy bizzy' came into existence which was synthetic and the color took longer to fade. I did try all three fabrics and came to the conclusion that cotton was most suited for me. Some colleagues were okay in their synthetic blouses too. We did go out in the sun to sales call on different corporate houses. Wanted to look as less hassled as we could. The high neck blouses were almost out of fashion for us though the service staff had to wear ...

The other day, at a get together, I overheard a friend's husband talking about it. It was an interesting conversation going on and I moved closer to be a part of it. Then the 'housewife' in me stopped me from doing that. It was not appropriate behaviour to barge or nudge into a discussion about work when I had quit my job twelve years back. It was also not so straight forward as there were more women in the crowd and I had to be a part of that, rather than hang around with the boys. I continued with my delicious meal and waited for the family to come to fetch me. Some of the snatched pieces of the conversation are here. Why do companies make Mission statements and Vision statements ? Does any employee ever remember what is the 'Mission or Vision' statement is? But while working, we spend hours creating this. I remember, there were external consultants called to help us come to our Mission statement and vision statement. There were endless meetings, jargons use...