I’m Lankan too, so I understand the social foundation you are coming from and could fill in some details in my minds eye that others might do differently: the rice and curry meal with many “dishes", the exhaustion the mother feels after a day at work and having to work the second shift at home(in a society in transition, caught between new financial needs and rigid traditional gender norms), the rise and rise of “eating out”.

But your story transcends all that, its universally accsesible, its a story that plays out in so many households, across oceans and throughout time. Its the story of a baby growing thrpugh that terrible stage where they must rebel and break their bond to their birthgiver. Usually to build is back in a more mature way.

I’m glaf to have found you, you have much talent.