That was a powerful start, especially the circumstances in which members of the Gupta family, those in it and the one who has left, have found themselves in after the wedding. They've all have been forced to wipe the slate clean and start afresh.
Will we get to visit Payal's new home? or do we get glimpses of it through the phone calls? That would make for an interesting narrative technique- a modern day version of the traditional epistolary novels.
Khushi's unease around Shyam will hopefully protect her from his creepiness which he has already displayed in the way he denounced the Raizadas and in the way he tried to hold her hand.
I love the different perspectives the sisters have on the novel, both reflecting their attitudes towards life and its vicissitudes. Is Payal's measured and matured one coming from an understanding that has come about through the experience of marriage, though it is only a few days since she's been married?
Both your chapters captured the start of the drift that begins to occur between a woman and her family the day she gets married.
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