see tanvi, i think this is where we differ.
You are looking at specific incidents and saying that one incident may have more gravity than others. I am looking at an overall character trait.
I believe that he has a character trait where he just washes his hands off everything that he doesnt find in alignment with what he wants at that given point in time.
And at this time, he has decided that calling her his wife and the baby his child is inconvenient, in keeping with his overall character trait.
The issue is not whether he is perfect or not... but how long gauri will keep boiling her blood wishing he was different.
I think she needs to come to this bitter realization and decide what she wants to do with it.
a. either she accepts it, and just makes the best of the times that he is with her and does wish to acknowledge her or
b. she rejects him altogether, and decides once and for all that she will not tolerate this denial of her existence anymore especially if it also concerns her child.
This in-between ground of staying on in this relationship and then thinking "i want it to be different, i deserve better, i want it t be different" is really ridiculous.
And you say that she was shocked after coming to Jayetsar that badi masi did not know and that jagya has not told them.
In atleast three phone calls he has referred to her as "his office colleague, his office friend, dr. singh" etc. If she had any sense, she would have realized right then and there that he does not wish to acknowledge her in Jayetsar. If badi masi already knew about her why would he address her as "dr singh" ? He would simply have called her "gauri" and spoken to her at ease, if nothing was there to hide.
Infact, when badi masi called him in Mumbai, and asked him who had picked up the phone he said to her in gauri's ear-shot "she is my hospital colleague". He did not say "she is my wife"...
Right then and there, gauri should have known. What is this big shock she receives when she comes and sits in Jayetsar, and he introduces her as a friend?