Originally posted by: FlauntPessimism
Tulsi didn't raise Karan but once he got into the family, she gave the motherly affection, advising him, sharing life lessons with him, but Karan actually did none of those with Bhoomi, as you said, he was emotionally absent. He just pampered her and granted her wish.. that's being a bad father
I know that losing your love and your mother is a great loss, but that's the time to really judge a person. He completely forgot his duties as a father. Having in a bad emotional state isn't an excuse to not perform the duties of a parent. It's not that he had lost his mind and couldn't do anything, he still was doing the business (and excelling in it), so not fulfilling the most important duty at that time can't be excused at all
I know that Tanya was the main caregiver and she didn't raise children well, you could also say that the children could have been slightly better if they had no Tanya in their lives even if Karan was absent, that however doesn't change the fact that he was a failure as a father. He didn't keep a check on how the children were being raised, he never tried to nurture the children, was never present for them and just thought giving money was enough.
In a way he did the same for his children that Mihir did for him in his childhood (something that he himself hated).
Later when Nandani was found, he only tried to search for Parth when Nandani insisted, he was only looking for Parth as Nandani wanted it
See Karan was a great son, Good brother, best lover , but as a father he really was a failure.
About Mandira, I don't think she badmouthed anyone to Karan, she just played a victim herself and made Karan feel that she has been wronged. Obviously Karan didn't know Mandira was evil, so from his perspective, he only saw that she was a mentally unstable person who thought Mihir Virani was her Amar and Mihir made use of that to spend time with her, have a child and then completely ignore them. (To be honest even Mihir himself thought that he had done this till he found out that Mandira wasn't mentally unstable)
That's why he hated Mihir, but he knew that other family members especially Tulsi had nothing to do with it, so he wasn't against him.
Mandira raised the child quite well. Karan was empathetic, he had zeal.
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