Our flight is going round and round unable to get clearance for landing and passengers are getting restless. Not me because I still have a lot of questions for the new bride, ask her if she has obtained a driving license because surviving without it in America is impossible. Madhuri makes a sad face, ‘I can drive but not the left-hand driving and I’m not familiar with the roads either’. Have you become computer savvy? Madhuri shakes her head again, ‘I can send emails but have to learn beyond that’. So what’s a day like in your new life? She blushes, says, ‘Well, till he leaves for work, I hover around my husband, after he leaves, I hang loose -watch TV, read, exercise, have a leisurely shower, which I have been denied all my life, I have realized I quite enjoy being myself’.
And what happens when the husband gets back from work? ‘We usually have a plan in place, go out for a meal/sight-seeing or just a drive. If he’s tired, we stay at home and watch TV. Currently, my old commitments bring me to India frequently and let me tell you that pulling away from each other is getting more and more difficult each time’. It is not often that Madhuri makes candid confessions. I have never seen her so romantic and tease her about it. She blushes again, ‘You are prodding me so I am dropping my guards, when you live far away and have just each other for company we want to cram in as much as we can. The coming year will be hectic for him as he will be spending almost 10 hours at the hospital every day, so I guess we want to spend as much time as we can together’.
To be continued…