Kastur may like Baapji in the beginning but I seriously don't see how she'll continue liking him the way he is considering his intense narrow-mindedness. As far as I can see even though Kastur loves tradition and is rooted in Gujarati culture, her views on the same are VERY different from Baapji's. She believes in change and in accepting other cultures as much as embracing your own, which is why she doesn't insult or deny the English their importance but shows them as an example of people who have ALSO embraced Indian culture and admire it for what it is. Baapji on the other hands has lived with the same set of beliefs for many years and takes intense pleasure in shoving those beliefs down the throats of all his family members. Even if Baapji likes her in the beginning, I don't see the mutual admiration lasting very long. I think if anything, Kastur will work on changing the way Baapji is and thus changing the condition of everyone, particularly the women of the household.
P.S. We're not sure about the complete story are we? We don't know what kind of interactions Mohan and Kastur had, whether they were friends, how that match was fixed yet. For all we know Kastur probably had a crush on him from afar and that crush culminated into girlish hopes when the alliance came through before he left. It's possible, and remember she's still 19 and one can still hold a torch for someone one liked long ago even at that age. It's not even like she's stalking him or doing crazy things besides imagining him all over the place, which would be completely natural if she had feelings for him and then her family members decided to initiate a match that early. I'm not sure it qualifies a 'get a life' yet, really 😆
Edited by Elizabeth Darcy - 14 years ago