He utterly disappointed me after such a great start!
I thought he would be one of those amazing reporters who will write from personal experience the harshness of cultural dictates of rural India that destroys lives and holds people back in the 19th century.
He did try to give Imlie a voice and a chance. But instead of liberating Imlie from the village practices, he succumbed to Imlie's ancient cultural norms that make the sindoor the only thing that matters in a relationship between a man and a woman. (a man marks his women with red powder: the woman now has an elevated status in society and fights with her life to belong to a man),.
And then Aditiya committed the ultimate sin: he fell in love with a teenager. 😔
I take all these disappointments very seriously. What makes it worse is that Aditiya looks very similar to one of my former boyfriends, who was a journalist. A tall New Zealander. Same face. 🤪