Today has been quite a disheartening day in my Facebook life. It is Mothers' Day and everybody showered their love publicly on their mothers. Some changed their profile pictures to their childhood pictures with their mother, some tagged their mothers and wished them a happy mothers' day and the likes. All good. As the day passed, the posts started turning into essays. They started becoming longer than needed. Some even came with a collage of pictures of their mothers. And then started a whole series of posts that started out as bothersome, but slowly and eventually became quite disturbing. These posts basically were kids and grown men and women my age, saying 'thank you' to their mothers for sacrificing food when it was not enough for the number of people at the table, it was a 'thank you' for their mother who stayed awake worrying about them when they were out partying, it was a 'thank you' for making them chai when they were studying. Do you see whe
Lalita Surabhi