Marble Cup

In a country like India, the house plays an important role, not only for the social status but for the gender status too.

The rooms of a house are separated and allocated to different purpose to different members of a family.

Like how each regions of a area is separated between two caste groups, how regions of a country is separated in languages.

But one room remains constant.

The kitchen, it belongs to only women.

Now it is changing but mostly it remains their world.

Even some men feel kitchen is a famine thing to do.

Kitchen is a women's world and their everything.

Each things in the kitchen belongs to other states, or country.

One place which speaks world politics is kitchen.women is their ruler.

Kumari rules her kitchen in such a way, better than most politicans rule their country.

She prepares the food with love, keeps the kitchen clean, stocks for future use, she respects the place, repairs if anything is damaged, reuses the things, recycles the waste.

Without taking bath, she never steps into the kitchen.she sees it as a spiritual place.

Every vessels in the kitchen and every utensils are happy to ge touchd by her gentle touch.she handles everything with care.

She never allows anyone to handle anything roughly.

Later in the night when every humans sleeps.the kitchen becomes alive.

With cockroaches running, wall lizards eating flies.

Rat coming out for food, cat watching rat, dog watching the cat.

Now the utensils starts speaking.

Some speaks malayalam, some tamil, some hindi, english, some speaks two languages, they are reused with joining two things.

Container, "i think there is problem going on with her "

Spoon, "but how can be sure of it?, she seems alright to me "

Tiffen box "he is right, i could sense some change in her touch "

Grinder "eevryday, she used to wash us, but now look at the kitchen, it is too dirty.i hate being here "

Mixie "dont cry fatty guy.she must have been tired "

Cups "no, we have been seeing it for the past week in their room, she is having problem with Ashok.he told her he is getting divorce "

Spoon, "divorce, why? "

Cup 1 "he is been love with another girl "

Grinder "another girl? "

Cup 2 "yes like our marble cup "

Mixie "I didnt know that story "

Cup1 "yes.he didn't fall from accident. He fell of the table as suicide "

Grinder "suicide, why? "

Cup1 "when he was sent to neighbour house with pooja prasadham, by then he fell in love with another marble cup in neighbouring house. "

Grinder "then? "

Cup1 "this happens every Friday. He prepares for a proposal "

There was a silence.

Cup1 "when he is picked up inside, he finds the other cup has broken into pieces and is being put in dustbin, so does his heart "

Cup2 "that is why he fell down so that he could join her in dustbin "

The light gets on.

Ashok sneaks out of the room speaking in his phone,

Everybody was a silent.

Ashok "I packed everything as per our plan... "

"...money are jewel are in place "

"....we will meet tomorow night "

"ha..same place...., yes, bye "

He sneaks back in.

Now everybody was silent again.

Spoon "if Ashok leaves, what happened to marble cup will happen to Kumari "

Mixie "i think we should do something "

Grinder "but what can we do "

Cup1 "can we kill him with poison "

Mixie "no, still then Kumari will suffer "

Cup2 "then, what can we do "

Mixie we should make him feel, how much Kumari loves him He doesn't know that, but we knows. how much time she spent here to prepare the food that she likes "

Spoon "yes, more than Ashok we know Kumari well..we should help her "

Cup1 "what is the plan? "

Mixie "oil? "

Each ingredient speaks in their own language from where their origin is.

Coconut oil "yendhu? "

Mixie "you have to fall in ground when Ashok tries to leave? "

Coconut oil "manasil ayilla? "

Mixie "if you fell down, Ashok will slip and fall down..he will get injured "

Grinder "where are you leading? "

Mixie "if Ashok gets injured, he will be in bed rest.so he will be in constant contact with Kumari, so he can understand her love "

Coconut oil "adi poli..sari..naa ceyyam "

Mixie "perfect "

Day happens. Everybody could feel something has changed in Kumari.

Night happens.

Late night, Ashok sneaks with the bag.as he walks across kitchen. He slips an falls down.

As pickle jar rolls and falls on his leg breaking it and jar himself.

Kumari runs coming picks him up and walks out to hospital.

Few days later.

Pickle jar starts to speak hindi and tamil combined, as the fevicol made it what it is.

As weeks passed, everybody in the kitchen could still feel drastic change in K umari.now she is pregnant. also she was happy.

Everybody in the kitchen celebrated with a prayer to marble cup.