It was a regular night at Hard Rock Café. Ashish and Rehan were hanging out. Every Friday these two would catch up here (except ofcourse when they were with their girlfriends). Ashish had been dating Sanaya for the past 10 months. She was a single mother with a nine-year-old daughter. “So where is Sanaya this …
It was a big day for Kavya. Today she was meeting her fiance’ Samir’s extended family for the first time. They say opposites attract. It is such a cliché! But it could not be truer in the case of Samir and Kavya. Samir had his own advertising agency which he had started after being a …
The other day I was watching Dear Zindagi. Alia’s Bhatt’s mother in the movie kept running after her, asking her what she would like to eat. Alia is always annoyed with her parents (I don’t want to disclose the reasons for those of you who haven’t seen the movie). She gets irritated when her mother …
This is a true story although names have been changed. __________________________________________________________________________________________________ How much is your budget? asked Mr. Prakash. I can arrange for 4 wedding functions, expenditure on arrangements 30 lakh, additionally I would give jewelry to my daughter worth 15 lakhs, replied Mr. Kashyap. Mr. Prakash: Okay. We are very liberal people. We don’t …
The moment a new DIL joins a family, every action and word of hers is scrutinized, and brutally judged. She should have a smile on her face like a clown, as she slogs all day and serves a bunch of new people who she never knew in her previous, (carefree) life even when they make …
The Indian Daughter in Law is not the Evil Bahu from Baghban Read More »
The Supreme Court in a recent judgment has held that A Hindu son can divorce his wife for the cruelty of trying to pry him away from his “pious obligation” to live with his aged parents and provide shelter to them. Justice Dave, who wrote the judgment has said that insisting her husband to live …
My mother passed the ringing phone to my while I was working on my laptop. Ravish Tinder: flashed the contact. Mom: What kind of name is Ravish Tinder? Me: Tinder is a dating app. Mom: Dating app!! You watch Crime Patrol. Don’t you know how dangerous these things are? Me: In a country where we …
If is meant to be it will happen Vs Make it happen – Dilemma of a Single Woman Read More »
I watched two episodes recently on a popular Indian television channel which narrates true incidents of crime. One was the case of a young unmarried woman who committed suicide because she thought she was pregnant. Another was that of an unmarried girl who tried to terminate her pregnancy herself in a crude way, and lost …
Would like to share the story of a family friend, changing the names for protecting their privacy. Mr. and Mrs. Agarwal arranged the marriage of their daughter, Purvi to Anil. It was a lavish wedding, just the way we like it. Within the first year of marriage, it was detected that Purvi had a cyst …
She saved her marriage. But what about her life? Read More »
Experiences shared by several readers, friends and some memories from what seems like another life have compelled me to write this article. In India, a lot of daughers-in-law are made to feel rebellious and uncultured because they do not blindly follow tradition. In-laws get a lot done in the name of “culture” and “respect for …
An Indian daughter-in-law is labeled uncultured and rebellious – Here is why Read More »