Maids of honour!
My maid is on leave. What? The title seems confusing? Are you saying I'm translating the phrase in a wrong manner? Absolutely not. The maids of honour are necessary to a bride for a wedding, ain't maids equally important for us ladies in our homes? You call her a house help, you call her didi, tai, maushi, bhabhi etc, etc. doesn't that mean you have some kind of relationship with her? The way you call your other relations by names, kaka, kaki or bhaiyya, maasi and so on and so forth. Why are we trying to initiate a relationship with a woman, working at our place? Why don't we call our subordinates at work, with same names? Why don't we call our bosses, uncles or aunties? Well, this house help is no doubt working for us for money, but she's making our life extremely easy. We don't have to do the tedious job of sweeping the entire house and wiping it clean. We don't have to wash our clothes or utensils daily. We don't have to carry on the laborious and...