Should MSK be given time to understand the importance of the rituals associated with the relationship? A year until the festival comes along next year?
Let's look at it from another perspective.
- MSK asked Geet to return back to Khurana Mansion, in view of Grandma's health. In Grandma's view, MSK has accepted Geet. He, who hates deception, himself chose the route of deception, for the good of Grandma's health. Well, he cannot be blamed for that.
- Then, a night or two earlier, MSK, in his sleep, called out to Geet and asked her not to leave him. That day, MSK also remembered the shirt that she had gifted him. So, from Geet's point of view, she knows that his memory is not lost, but merely hidden.
- Grandma asked MSK to stay back at home for the Teej festivities. Now, surely, he knew what the rituals involved. Now, it is completely within his character sketch to hate deception of any form. So, ought not he have reflected on this earlier? Surely, he knew that Geet would fast and that he would have to break the fast.
I understand that the events that evening during the festivities precipitated his decision to put an end to the deception that he himself set up.
Yet, he himself had implicitly agreed to Geet keeping the fast. To an extent this was on account of Grandma's undue influence. But, by his implied agreement, he has created a situation where the woman who is his wife has fasted for him and their marriage and will break the fast only in accordance with the rituals.
Grandma knows that Geet is as stubborn as her grandson. So, how is the stalemate to be broken?
If MSK is left to think about it, how long would it take him to come to a realisation? How long will it take him to accept his mistake, move beyond his prejudices and approach Geet? And, whilst he thinks about it, his wife's health remains compromised.
And, so his wife's *Mother* decided to bring this to a halt. She berated MSK for his behavior and questioned his decisions. And, she placed her own condition to ensure that he complete the rituals. She did not tell him that she would fast until he solved a list of *twenty questions* about Geet. She did not pressurise him to remember the various facets of his relationship with Geet, but only to accept what is an undeniable fact -- that he is indeed married to Geet -- and complete the rituals accordingly. If he had not, by implicit agreement, allowed Geet to fast, this situation would not have arisen at all.
And, perhaps no one knows MSK better than Geet (and vice versa for a non-amnesiac MSK). If Geet is the Geet of yore and she got her introspection right and placed herself in MSK's shoes as he asked her to, she would recognise the bind that MSK is in. So, that probably explains why Geet approaches MSK, instead of waiting for him to come to her. I certainly hope so.
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