Cooking gas

Cooking  gas

Gone are  those days of firewood

and coal when women had their hard times

battling and blowing through

to run the domestic chore;

heavy tons of rice  and vegetables,

porridge and  pots of boiling milk

and pans of papads  - all  in daily

routine  all in three rounds unlimited;

these  are times, when no patience

and pragmatics prevail as far as

these ancient outdated  modules figure

in  most women’s heart and thinking;

heavy cylinders with cooking gas

connecting tubes  with gas lighters

 modern kitchen with modernized

 appliances where  modernity creeps in

minute by minute; little do we realize

how hard it is for  delivery man  to lift

on his shoulders and  load and re load

in his van rolling from street to street;

modernity has its own limits

modernity has its own  rubrics