Originally posted by: shi_no_tenshi
I'd said something similar earlier where I couldn't reconcile the mother who encouraged Krishna to indulge in *ahem* 'mauj-masti' and then scolded him for making light of a girl's abduction the next day 😕 I presume that with the abduction, it's not just the moral aspect she was thinking of - she was probably also bearing the family's reputation in mind.....
But I do understand why she's so oblivious to her bahu's feelings - she clearly has a LOT of bitterness to endure alone in her life and the only person she can really let it out on is her daughter-in-law I suppose - if she were to take it out on the children or the grandmother, she'd evidently have to deal with Sajjan Singh's wrath. There's also a bit of the Bairi Piya element at play here where Shobna didn't see why she ought to help Amoli since she'd been through the same horrific experiences and no-one helped her.
If you extrapolated this and projected it onto Indian society in general, it sort of helps to explain how women are often themselves responsible for perpetuating this kind domestic abuse since the mother-in-law will pass this bitterness, anger and hatred onto her daughter-in-law who will then carry on the cycle.....
Erm....sorry for the length of the response....just my two cents :)
