Originally posted by: leavesandwaves
Nandini is fearless while Harki fears the wrath of her husband. Living with him made her become another Akhiraj.
Harki knows that the world is unkind. And she is dependent on her husband. Has no education, has never fended for herself, also does not know how. She knows that Akheraj will not think twice before killing her or maiming her or throwing her out of his life if he gets angry. Akheraj has no soft corner for any woman. He even told his daughter yesterday that I should have killed your mom for giving birth to a girl. And without any survival skills, what will she do, how will she survive. She is caught in the age-old man/woman imbalance. And pandering to her son and husband is her way of survival and primary goal in life. Since she is treated this way, she treats Nandini in the same way and will have no problem if her daughter is treated like this in her own in-laws home. It is the way of life for her.
But occasionally she lets softness for her daughter peep through.
Nandini's innate sense of right and wrong and her ignorance in the ways of the world makes her fearless. She feels she has nothing to lose. She sees herself spending her entire life doing exactly what she has been doing until now with people for whom she hardly feels anything.
But the genes she has of Shiv and Anandi do not allow her to ignore injustice. She is willing to sacrifice herself for people who are sympathetic to her and strives to make their lives better. She does not aspire to change her own life.
She does not yet know how unkind the world can be to women. In a way until now she has been totally sheltered from the outside world.