Sorry. I do not buy this Ira bashing this time.
Ira is right. It is true that getting rishta and that too such a good rishta of a virgin, young IAS officer is nearly impossible for a divorcee, that too one who has been a child bride and is from a village.
I've seen the best educated women from respectable families get rejected just because they were divorced. Even if divorce was not due to their fault, still they did not get good match. Some of them are single now and some have been married off to much older men who are already fathers to grown up kids (to fill void for mother of their growing kids).
Ira is right in saying what she did.
They'd have got any good girl from a great, fully educated, reputable family for Shiv.
They agreed to get Anandi married to Shiv only on Shiv's insistence.
They have been so tolerant till now, lived away from their son and DIL, not objected to presence of her ex husband around or their son doggedly serving Singhs, their DIL freely interacting with her ex, her taking time to accept Shiv and not sharing the same bed with him (though he madly loved her), they welcome even their DIL's ex husband with open arms at their house!
For all their goodness and understanding, they get this? That their samdhan was dissuading others to approach Shiv for marriage by slandering him?
The kind of things DS had said for Shiv were extreme (including BS about bringing his GF from London as sauten!). DS slandered poor Ashima also!
This was no way justified. Anandi and others need to apologise and be ashamed rather than offering explanations or defending DS!
Ira's reaction is nothing. Imagine what DS would have done if situation was reversed and someone had been slandering her laadesar Jagya!
That shameless woman hides flaws of Basant and Jagya. But was freely slandering a flawless man like Shiv only so that coast is clear for Anandi?! Selfish hypocrite!
As a concerned parent Ira has every right to react the way she did.
She and rest of the Shekhars have already been more than tolerant and permissive towards Singhs and their idiosyncrasies. Allow her to be!
Forget the serial. How'd you feel if you'd know that your bhabhi or jija's mother slandered your brother or sister before marriage so that no one else marries them and they are left only for her daughter/son?
Would you excuse or rationalise it as an act of love and move on instantly? Wouldn't you get angry?
Edited by Skepblun - 12 years ago