Years ago (it feels like a lifetime, actually), when our kids were helping to celebrate our first grey hairs with their teenage antics, i was included into a "mom's gang" who had known each other forever, but were crazy enough to include this unsociable, erratic person in their mad lunch meetings. Much water has flowed under the bridge and it is a long time since i managed to attend one of those hilarious, screeching affairs where the food was shared like in a boarding school dormitory (one plate had around 12 spoons stuck into it) and any male listening to the conversation had his ears singed off in shock....
To think that four of those women, in between their heroic treks to mountain locales where they challenged their years and behaved like a bunch of teenagers (okay with hurting knees and hips and feet!!), their intense gym workouts to maintain those amazing figures, their trips here and there on holiday, family business and what-have-you, managed to launch Chennai's first door-delivered online library, and with SUCH chutzpah....amazes and humbles me. I see them in the papers....(hey these guys are serious!), i visit their website (wow, this is so cool) and i join up. Within minutes i get a call from a very professional voice saying "hello this is bookandborrow.com" and then i crack up...it's Raji!! I place my order and, in a day, i get prompt delivery of my books, all clean and plastic encased, with their cheery yellow stickers, a return-cover all addressed and ready, and i wish half the businesses i have dealt with all these years were as enthused, as professional, as ORGANISED.
I guess it takes a bunch of stressed out moms to know how to plan, trouble-shoot, be optimistic, know their strengths and weaknesses and hit the ground running!! Our kids trained us well, huh!!
CONGRATS YOU GORGEOUS WOMEN. CHENNAI DARE NOT STOP READING NOW THAT YOU HAVE AN AGENDA!!!
Devika Mukerji Khazvini
