The world as Pari sees it

Due to the inability of Pari's parents to keep her with them, she lives with her maternal grandparents (Aaji and Baba) in Nagpur from the time she was 1.5yrs old. So she thinks that her home is in Nagpur, and her Mummy's home is in Kharagpur, and her Daddy's home is in Kolkata. In last two years she has learned that Mummy's train that comes to her every month is blue in colour and the train that goes to Daddy is purple (local train from Kharagpur to Kolkata).  She has learned that Mummy is studying for becoming a doctor (little one does not understand what PhD means!) and so she also will study hard and become a doctor (the one that gives medicines and injections!) too. She has mostly seen Mummy wear salwar-suits or kurti-leggings, and so she says when she grows up she will wear salwar-suit and go to college on a bicycle. She actually aspires to someday become everyone she sees around her. When she becomes Aaji she will wear Saree and a bindi, when she becomes Baba she will ride a scooter, when she becomes Mami she will cook chapatis, when she becomes Mama she will drive a car and go to office, and when she becomes Athak (her cousin, elder by 7 months) she will go to school by bus... and so on. The day she saw a cat with its kittens, she said that one day she will become a cat's Mummy! So that's Pari's world to begin with. More stories to come....