Chapter 1 -- The Arrival
Indian nephew plans to spend summer at a remote lodge with his aunts
My mother has three brothers -- all of them
way
older than her. This story involves their wives (my aunts) and me, one summer when I went up to their lakeside lodge. In Urdu, we call a maternal uncle (the brother of one's mother) a
mamu
(maternal uncle). The wife of a
mamu
is called
mamani
(or maternal aunt-in-law). Therefore this story is the story of my beautiful
mamani
s and me.
We are an Urdu speaking family, originally from Lucknow in India, but settled in Kolkata (formerly known as Calcutta) for a long time. My father is a government employee and my mother works in a big corporation as a secretary. Ours isn't a very rich family, somewhat middle class, but my
mamu
s are all extremely well off. My mother's brothers together runs a business making and exporting traditional Indian garments such as
sari
and
kurta
. The older two brothers are actively involved in the business, while the younger one is a doctor with his own practice, but also has shares in the business as a silent partner. All three uncles were have done quite well for themselves, especially the youngest one, being a doctor AND having a share of the thriving garments business.
As a nephew, I was very close to all of my aunts ever since I was a kid. My uncles always encouraged us to visit them, and we always did. As I grew up, those visits became less and less as we moved to Delhi and it wasn't cheap to go by air to Calcutta. Still, whenever the occasion presented itself, I loved to visit my aunts, especially since they always gave me expensive gifts. Let me describe my
mamani
s.
The oldest aunt (the wife of my mother's oldest brother) is Shaheen
mamani
. I call her
barey mamani
(which literally translates to Big Aunty). Now, Shaheen is really a big lady, almost six feet tall. If you know Indians, that's taller than most Indian men, let alone women. Her height meant she is also heavy without being fat. She has a big build and frame, and coincidentally is even taller than her husband -- my
mamu
. She would definitely have made a great volleyball player!
Shaheen works in my
chotey mamu
's hospital -- the hospital that belonged to my youngest uncle -- in Kolkata as a nurse. She didn't really need to work, of course, but she had been trained as a nurse, and she loved being a nurse. My
mamu
never stopped her from working after marriage, much to my grandmother's chagrin.
As the oldest
bahu
(daughter-in-law) of the house, Shaheen always dressed conservatively. I always saw her in a
salwar kameez
, and never in Western attire, and outside the house she wears a
hijab
, the Muslim head covering. Now even though she wears a
dupatta
and a
hijab
, for some strange reason she wears her clothes a little tight. I guess being a big lady, she has trouble getting clothes her size in India -- somewhat ironic since her husband has a clothing business!
My
barey mamani
is one of those ladies who has a really big butt, so her big bum always used to protrude out a lot. This was one reason why she never took the public transit in the big cities in India, as guys would somehow find a reason to rest their hand on her bum or accidentally brush against her, or pinch her surreptitiously. She once told me of the time she had been stuck in Mumbai and HAD to take a bus. That 18 minute ride to her hotel, she had confessed, had been the longest 18 minutes of her life, as men continuously groped her, pinched, her, placed a finger in her anus and even smacked her bum on the crowded and busy bus.
Shaheen also never wore a long
kameez
, so her top would ride up her big behind, leaving the
salwar
showing. With her tight bottoms, if she walked in front of you, you could make out the shape of her buttocks which would jiggle as she walked. She was always conscious of it and tried to straighten up and walk, but invariably her clothes would cling to her body, making the outline of her big butt cheeks apparent. Oh, how many men had cast an eye at Shaheen as she walked past them, her buttocks sashaying and swaying! And how many times had I just wanted to grab and grope that bum as she walked past me, and had to control my desires to do so!
When I visited
barey mamani
two years ago, I used to love sitting in the kitchen with her. Shaheen probably thought I was a nice young nephew giving her company, but I loved to watch her move about in the kitchen. Her big boobs would bounce about, but what made me really sit there was when she had to work with her back to me. As she would chop up the vegetables and talk family gossip, her butts would continuously wriggle. I would watch as one butt cheek pushed out against the fabric of her bottoms, while the other butt cheek would go up, and then come down while the other one now went up. The fact that she was my
mamani
, and there I was having dirty thoughts about her, and she was oblivious to it, only made it hotter.
Shaheen has a nice, long face, clear skin, light brown complexion and didn't usually wear much makeup. Whenever I kissed her, I of course placed a platonic kiss on each of her soft cheeks, but I always wondered how it would be to press my lips against her pouty lips.
I used to touch and kiss my aunts often. I had done it as a kid, and when I grew older, I never stopped from doing it. Of course, now kissing my aunts would give me a secret thrill. I sometimes wondered if they were aware of that, and tolerated it secretly, or they were oblivious to that fact. That when I hugged them, with my arms going around their waist, that I loved doing it for not so innocent reasons.
Shaheen is also very bossy. As the wife of the oldest brother, she is the elder
Bhabhi
to everyone in the family and she took her role seriously. Even her husband, my
barey
mamu
, is somewhat afraid of her and blindly obeys her. It is clear that she wears the pants in the marriage. My other
mamani
s also always defer to her.
Shaheen is also quite conservative and orthodox in her religious dogma. I would sometimes sit and watch movies with her, cuddling with her, but she would always have the remote in her hand. Sometimes, when watching an English movie, there would be a kissing scene, or if it was a Hindi movie there would be a raunchy song, Shaheen would fast forward through those. If I would protest, she would playfully shush me and say I shouldn't watch those things. Of course I sometimes noticed some contradictions in her as well. If she was by herself, she loved to watch the same raunchy Bollywood songs. I had often heard her tell naughty jokes to my other aunts, or pass bawdy remarks when she was with her girlfriends and a good looking guy would cross the street, or come on the television. Sometimes she did that even if I was present.
Now about my second aunt.
Taiba
mamani
is the wife of my mom's second brother. I call her
majhle mamani