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Today Ishaan finally pointed out what everyone chose to ignore and look past regarding the Sangeet incident: what Samrat had done that led to Trisha walking off stage.
I had said earlier that this act wasn't exactly unnoticed by everyone, but what riled everyone up was that Trisha the ahangari would dare to assert herself and walk off the stage. Everyone there knew why she left, Rashmi herself asked her what the big deal was since Samrat gave her so much money. The problem is that Trisha dared to turn around and walk out, confirming that she thought what he did to be an insult, and one she would not stand for. This became Samrat's public insult, because she dared to turn away and walk away from him--which meant she made a statement, asserted herself and made it known that she found his actions unacceptable.
Everyone chose to ignore the insult on Trisha, and focused on the "insult" to Samrat. Because how dare this girl be so outspoken and headstrong? How dare she not know her place and just let things go. Instead she chose to take offense and draw attention and insult to Samrat.
Today Ishaan finally brought that point up to Samrat's family, and they had no answer. Does this mean Trisha is vindicated? No. For that to happen they would need to acknowledge it and apologize to Trisha.
But at least that little fact was brought up to Samrat's family by Ishaan. Urmi's family on the other hand, has Rashmi--who refuses to heed her parents' advice--and Nani at the forefront still blaming Trisha and refusing to acknowledge Samrat's part in the incident. The rest of the family are either silently agreeing, or too afraid/conflicted/in denial to say anything.
I don't really expect any of these misogynist, sexist, regressive people to actually acknowledge that Trisha was right in walking off that stage. People like the grandmother still would say that Trisha should know her place instead of asserting herself.
But the day Rashmi, Nani and Urmi's father (because I suspect he silently agrees with Rashmi and Nani) are forced to see the real Samrat, I will not feel sorry for them at all. In fact, I just may cackle.
