Four 30-something mothers share their thoughts about keeping their professional and family lives on track during the pandemic while grappling with the disproportionate burden of responsibility placed on them. Watch the full video here:
In early 2020, we relearned a forgotten life skill the hard way. We finally started to slow down and cultivate patience, and were forced to realise joy even in the most mundane of things.of various severities, common responses have emerged from those in similar socioeconomic situations, all rooted, as always, within an analysis of power.
Going grocery shopping has become an event, and many of us find ourselves teetering between brazenly taking a walk to the convenience store down thefor a non-essential item and caring enough to find the kind of infallible reasoning that would justify our goings-out. Feelings of guilt, the aftermath of some false sense of bravado, have become de rigueur too.
It has been a period of hard learning for everyone. One subsection that I’d confidently wager to be at the end of its tether is the lot we recently organised a Zoom session with. For a couple of hours one afternoon, we brought together four young women in their thirties. We have 31-year-old, founder of jewellery brand Studio Metallurgy and mother to one-year-old Amartya, currently in Gurugram without her husband or any other family.
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