Illustration/Uday Mohite

Despite everything, Goa is hard to beat for a quick getaway. So, at a college reunion in Goa, of friends from St Xavier's College, Mumbai, we simply went with the flow. All-women holidays are different and special; let's call my women friends Candy, Mandy and Sandy. Candy, whose children are in their 20s, summed up motherhood over a generation: "Earlier we used to run after the kids with lunch dabbas, now we chase them with coffee and car keys."