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Okay, until now I have not been clear about this naata pratha custom -- what it means and what is different from marriage.
Yesterday, i understood when the old man in the precap said "this is nonsense. everyone knows why a naata is done instead of a marriage -- if the marriage is childless, then the husband establishes a relationship with another woman for a child. case closed. bharat wins."
Okay, so if everyone knows what is the case in the village society -- that naata is only undertaken when a child is required by a childless couple -- then why did phoolis parents agree to it?
I mean surely they understood what the implications were -- phooli not to be blamed -- she is young and i think her social senses are dead because of all the social problems she has gone through because of her young widowhood and other issues.
I understand her dad was desperate to see her settled in some sort of way -- and did not want her hanging around as a young widow -- and it is difficult to get a husband for a widow to begin with -- but still he had to know the implications of what naata meant -- even if bharat and his mother did not declare their surrogacy intentions at the beginning itself.
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