SATIRE | The family gathered in front of the fireplace in their holiday hideaway nestled among the hills. Under normal circumstances, the retreat has been hardly used. The French-trained cook-cum-caretaker had been having a long break, during the pre-Covid-19 times, it was a nice hideaway for secret trysts or a dirty weekend for the younger members of the clan.

The matriarch of the family had insisted on a meeting to decide the future of the youngest grandson. She had read about him being moved to a foreign land to start his formal education.

This is how the discourse went...