On a zoom conference yesterday, when I requested for meeting times to be kept for post lunch hours, I invited a spontaneous sneer. Pre-lunch time is for domestic chores and cooking, I explained. The jeering continued. All men. Which got me thinking - men do not expect to take household chores as a valid reason to be busy from other men. And what can be less ‘manly’ than making rotis. My father encouraged and cheered me on to participate in household work when I was young, and I’m grateful for it. I learnt to cook and clean fairly early, but it was not until I had a kid of my own that I began to make rotis. Here’s to rotis - that humble ubiquitous round piece of moon, ordinary yet so precious. Men: make rotis, feed the people you love, feed yourself.
