hi there...I really wanted to reply after reading the last update but was away from a computer and a good internet connection.
I'm loving the chemistry sizzling between Arnav and Khushi. Arnav's flirting and simple, sweet gestures are totally adorable! 😉 Khushi's jealousy indicates that she has subconsciously begun giving to the hope for a future with him. Its heartening to see the relationship between Arnav and Payal evolving slowly but beautifully.
But the most significant part was, without a doubt, Nani's reaction to Garima!!!! My eyes were sure gonna pop out when I read that part. Where did that come from!!! I hadn't expected it at all.
Things became clearer after this update but I must say it was a shocking kahani mein twist! superb writing, as usual!!
If Garima is indeed Greeshma, and as it seems to me, that Anya is indeed her daughter, it means Anya and Khushi are half sisters?!!😲 Unless there is another twist wherein Khushi is not Garima's biological daughter, which is possible 'cause it seemed in this update that Greeshma didn't want to give Anya up because the doctor told her something, maybe something like, she can't be a mother again? As it is...they are both of the same age, so Garima giving birth to both of them seems far-fetched. Wow, so much speculation! I'm dying to know what the reality is!! And how deeply this is going to impact all the relationships in and between the Raizada and Gupta families!
*** and to answer your questions:
1. What Ahalya did, was perhaps a very ideal case. I wonder what her motivation was behind such a momentous decision!
Most of the women from such families would have turned their eyes the other way or have had the woman in question thrown out. They didn't do well handling the results of their husbands' indiscretions. Also this wouldn't have been the only time a woman had gotten impregnated by Mr. Mallik, so why such a big step?! Maybe because she feels personally responsible and guilty.
In a rare instance, a virtuous woman would have offered compensation or monetary help to the woman for settling elsewhere and raising the child.
2. If by that you mean to imply that she'd never have crossed paths with Mr. Mallik, then I guess her life would have been different but just as difficult. Her father would have passed away for the lack of good health care 'cause 5k could hardly have sufficed for a long time. Maybe she would have completed her education and gotten a job and married and had a normal life. but it's also possible that she could have come across some other b*****d like that Mallik and had a miserable life owing to the repercussions of such an association. Life for young, single, poor women in the '80s that too in small towns was extremely tough.
Whoa...this has turned out to be an essay rather than a comment. hope you haven't dozed off reading it 🤔 Really eager to read further...thoroughly enjoyed reading these two updates! 😃