May I grow a spine, please?

We are no longer free to eat as we choose, or dress - whether for office or at home - as we desire as we continue under training, writes Kishore Singh

Now that he is to be wed, our son has taken it upon himself to “improve” his family. He has body shamed his mother into setting a target for losing weight “urgently”. Nor is he content to shape us into his idea of the perfect family. We must do his bidding, speaking — or replying — not as we are spoken to but as he would choose us to, wearing what he approves, and conducting ourselves with the independence of mannequins. 

Nor are we permitted to take upon ourselves such mundane matters as picking up a phone to summon his future