How is Saraswati better than Barkha?

Very well said you can't say or describe saraswati a woman from the village to react so i'll only say in a few words she only knows how to turn something to her own advantage and then she begins with her over nicely wordsI will say sometimes it is very tough to watch her as she put too much efforts to be sweet.
in a certain way Barkha is better than her though she knows that it was not Nikhil fault to let his brother hand.
One it was raining, secondly Akash was elder than Nikhil for him to hold Akash.

Nice post. Don't have too much too add other than the fact that even though Saraswati treated Lajjo like crap she still felt bad about it (when talking to her hubby) on the other hand Barkha seems to have no remorse for her treatment of Nikhil all these years (IMHO that is😳).

I agree. both the mothers have behaved selfishly.

That's how our culture is like, we put first what society will think and we want to avoid being talked about in the negative sense, both mothers that's what they are trying to avoid, Saraswathi knowing the grandfather and aunt of Nikhil living in the same village seem down to earth people despite being wealthy, so she probably thinks Nikhils dad and rest of his family are down to earth like the family they know in their village, what they know of Nikhil giving the money for the dowry, so concerned about Laajo to offer to marry her, marry her take her from there bring her back for Paag phere, when she goes to ask the grandfather and aunt they also playing along that Laajo is accepted and loved at her sasural and loved by her husband to be visiting places etc, Laajo herself also is playing along to this game, Nikhil is feeding her gulab jamun as well to prove his love, can't blame the village family entirely, all are hiding from them that the people in the city are snobs and refusing to accept the marriage. They don't even know about Ishana, Nikhil's friends, his aunt all should have gone to Saraswati and family and told them at least that he loves someone else before they marriage but nobody stepped up, can't expect Saraswati to guess as from what she knows of the family they are down to earth good people.

Yes Saraswati is selfish really , she knows how to manipulate the

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Originally posted by: .Nafisa.

That's how our culture is like, we put first what society will think and we want to avoid being talked about in the negative sense, both mothers that's what they are trying to avoid, Saraswathi knowing the grandfather and aunt of Nikhil living in the same village seem down to earth people despite being wealthy, so she probably thinks Nikhils dad and rest of his family are down to earth like the family they know in their village, what they know of Nikhil giving the money for the dowry, so concerned about Laajo to offer to marry her, marry her take her from there bring her back for Paag phere, when she goes to ask the grandfather and aunt they also playing along that Laajo is accepted and loved at her sasural and loved by her husband to be visiting places etc, Laajo herself also is playing along to this game, Nikhil is feeding her gulab jamun as well to prove his love, can't blame the village family entirely, all are hiding from them that the people in the city are snobs and refusing to accept the marriage. They don't even know about Ishana, Nikhil's friends, his aunt all should have gone to Saraswati and family and told them at least that he loves someone else before they marriage but nobody stepped up, can't expect Saraswati to guess as from what she knows of the family they are down to earth good people.

So very true! How are they (Laajo's family) to know anything is amiss when everyone is either pretending everything is fine or not correcting her assumption? Saraswati did worry about Lajjo's reception at her sasural (as per her convo with her SIL) and since everyone has either re-assured her or have not told her otherwise then she has assumed that all is fine & that everyone has accepted Lajjo which is probably why she is acting the way she is. Also as I mentioned before even though she took out her anger @ her daughter she also felt remorse for doing so. I think if we put ourselves in her shoes we could understand where she is coming from to some extent. On the other hand for Barka to hold an accident over Nikhil's head since he was just a little boy is just too much IMHO. It was an accident and while she should mourn her loss she also should not have put the blame on her younger son for all these years...