Kasturi

Yesterday I went to visit my grandparents who live in the next building. I had been reading a Sanskrit (an ancient Indian language) storybook and asked my grandmother a question about it. As she was answering, my grandpa who was standing nearby started answering loudly, without acknowledging that grandma was speaking. This made her stop; so I asked her to go on, pointedly ignoring my grandpa, who butted in again. I’d like to mention that my grandma has a PhD in Sanskrit, and my grandpa has an engineering background. She clearly knew more about the topic than he did, and she was already talking, yet he ignored her and started speaking. Later grandma told me that he had always interrupted her and ignored what she wanted to say in the past. If i directly confront my grandpa about this, he’d feel insulted and I’d get scolded