Thanks laksh for the update. Does Shan even merit any advice? I seem to remember a few lines from a poem learned in my younger days which said "He that knows not and knows that he knows not, he is ignorant, teach him. He that knows not and knows not that he knows not, he is arrogant, shun him." Shan should be shunned and his mother should also walk out on him, and let him face his downfall. After all, Shiva will have no interest in Shan if everyone leaves him, because then Shiva knows that Kaveri is not going to come back to Shan, and so he will also drop Shan like a hot potato.