Retirement Gifts For Women

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Retirement gifts for women There is a particular kind of gift a woman gets when she retires, and most of it is wrong. A bouquet that dies in a week. A shawl she will not wear. A framed certificate with the department name spelled correctly and nothing else about it right. Thirty or forty years of work, marked with something that has no place to go afterwards. The pieces that land are the ones that fit the house she is about to spend far more time in. In most Indian families that means the mandir, because the woman retiring is very often the person who has kept it running all along, around the job, for decades. A gift for that shelf is not a generic devotional object. It is an acknowledgement of the part of her life nobody gave her time off for. What is a good retirement gift for a woman in India Most of what works as a retirement gift for women falls into two groups: the goddess she already keeps, and the piece that simply belongs in her house without asking anything of her. Lakshmi is the most given and the most reliable, and it is not a lazy choice. She belongs in a household shrine without needing to know anything about the family's particular practice, and the forms differ enough that you can choose with some care: seated on the lotus for a shelf, standing for presence, four-armed in solid brass for a mandir where abhishek is performed, or an antique finish where the piece is meant to look inherited rather than new. Durga suits a different woman and everybody knows which one. The eight-armed form seated on her lion is a gift with an argument in it, and for a woman who has held a department together for thirty years it lands better than something merely graceful. Sherawali Mata is the same goddess in the form most North Indian households keep. Rajarajeshwari, the sovereign of the Sri Vidya tradition, is the considered choice where you know the family follows it. Away from the deities, the Kamdhenu cow with her calf is the safest thing to give when you do not know