Maybe it’s just me but I’ll never understand why abuse has to judged over only physical violence.
Ashok didn’t constantly beat Babita so does that make her trauma less? Living with years of neglect leaves its own kind of scars....so why must we keep trying to quantify that HS’s mother suffered more because she was beaten?
These women ALL suffered....that is the underlying point here. Babita knows that trauma even if she didn’t get beaten up for years. She suffered a different kind of emotional and verbal abuse that destroyed her soul....does trauma only count if it leaves physical scars?
I personally find it immensely tragic that she was abandoned by all her blood relatives, lost her parents and was let down by the ppl she submitted herself too. The scars that can leave on a psyche also change you forever. Mini kept her sane otherwise she was more or less dead inside her soul, surviving on a mirage.
