SHIPRA GUPTA, HOMEMAKER

A 38 year old post graduate in English Literature with a diploma in Fashion Design. Meet Shipra Gupta, a homemaker (originally from Kanpur) who says with complete confidence, “I am so happy to have opted to be a homemaker. Managing a home is a full-time job but it also gives one the flexibility to pursue meaningful interests”. For Shipra, it means she can dedicate herself to her family and children and at the same time spend her free time to pursue her love for art and creativity.

Shipra’s day starts at 5:30 AM, she spends the next couple of hours cooking and preparing food, and getting her kids ready. After dropping her kids off at the bus stop, she goes for a round of morning walk around the society with her friends and then gets back home to put things in order. Shipra then spends a good five hours on art and planning upcoming workshops. In that time, which she happily calls her own, she paints, takes classes for children, designs workshops and immerses herself in her passion for art.

She ensures she wraps up before the kids return from school at 4:30 PM and then spends time chatting to them about their day, ensuring they eat a good meal, helping them complete their school work and gets on to preparing dinner. With the kids in bed by 10:00 PM, Shipra goes back to her world of colours and spends time on her art work until 11:30 PM before calling it a night.

Having to start from scratch every time she moved due to her husband’s job, Shipra found that transition from one city to another challenging especially as it meant spreading the word about her work and her classes, but she never thought of quitting. In fact, Shipra gives a positive spin to the whole situation and says, “Each place has brought new ways to engage with different sets of people and has helped me network and be socially active as well. So eventually it’s been a change for the better.”

While I leave you with some of her handy work, The Wonder Women World has a message for all the homemakers reading this. If you are made to feel like your role is not important or are told, “You are just a homemaker” – ignore these regressive statements like Shipra does and remind yourself that in reality homemaking is one of the most important work in the world. If it was your choice to be a homemaker and if it makes you happy, nothing else matters.