Uma Mary was here early in the morning to give me my weekly massage. What a habit! When Charmayne first suggested it a couple of years ago I wasn’t at all keen and kept fobbing her off. But C. insisted and Uma Mary bounced into our flat one morning and since then (predictably) I have got addicted to her weekly visits.
Uma is her real name and Mary is what her husband’s people call her. She is a Maharashtrian married to a Catholic from Madras. This is her second marriage. Earlier she was married to a Maharashtrian who died, leaving her with two daughters. Now she has two more kids, a son and daughter, by the second husband, who according to Charmayne wears a gold chain and leaves his shirt unbuttoned almost up to the waist. Apparently he didn’t like the two daughters by her former husband so she packed them off to boarding school. The older daughter is now married.
Uma Mary is incredibly cheerful and bouncy. You would hardly expect that from someone who lived in a slum till recently and whose home was razed to the ground by the police and utensils and a lot of her belongings simply confiscated. That was some months back and about the only time I saw her a bit down. Then with Charmayne’s help she and her family moved into a one bedroom flat in Nala Sopara, so I guess now she really has something to celebrate.
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