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Here's yet another of those questions that LTL gets us to think about:
What is a father? What is a son? And how will Dutta react to his father who supposedly wants to set things right? Will Dutta, in his what was softer side, be willing to accept him? Will he even think of Damodar as his father? And how will Kala react? (I know this is an odd question, but Damodar's return has the potential to destroy her too)
It got me thinking about one of my favorite diarists. She wrote the following about her father who abandoned her and her mother. Her life was so affected that she wrote the following:
"I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern."
"The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless."
I think of Damodar as a man too selfish to be a father...he is merely a sperm donor in a "respectable" way--he was married to Dutta's mother. Now when Dutta finds out his father is Damodar (I'm not sure why he does not know this, but I'm sure we'll get to know soon) and that DP is a murderer and still alive, presumably still unpunished for Sriram Patil's death, I wonder what conflicting emotions Dutta may feel. He is Damodar's son...will he hate him? Will Dutta be open to Damodar's attempts at reconciliation, because of the blood relationship? Will he blame himself for the loss in his sisters' lives?
This is going to be a very interesting track...I can feel it. And I have a feeling that as always, things will not be as they seem.
I'm curious what you think Dutta's reaction will be and just as importantly, Kala's, now that her father's murderer has returned.
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