Kool,
Majority women who completely depend on a man for food and shelter are not treated well, they are second class, In past our ancestor told the women that her husband is her God...imagine a human being is a God (the creator, the end in all) it is not a small thing..she had to live under him, do his bidding and die when he died, she had to be scared and in awe of her God, she had no other world but whatever her God told her do, she was doomed to live under the God ..if the God died she was burned alive for convenience sake..to do away with widow problem, take away the burden from the in-laws...just burn her, let priest take the Jewellery (which she wore when she was burnt) and family keep the husband's property.
Even in the west the women who are completely depend economically on their husbands are many times taken advantage of and in rare cases abused very badly.
Our ancestors have treated women very badly..in shastras women's status is same as shudras and low caste..
In this case Hetal is behaving very badly and Bedi's lack self respect and Karan is door mat..I have not seen parents like Gandhi's either who will gladly keep their married daughter at their house..usually sons and daughter in law chuck the misbehaving sister out of the house pretty fast.
Depends on whom we call our ancestors ...as different periods vary . In my research , I am studying the saptarishis , and their progeny ...the satyayuga ...the upanishads and the derviations from the Vedas . I find scientific and societal basis for their laws .
Even the people in the 14th century can be called our ancestors , I really do not know who you mean . But when I speak I study the self realised ancestors ...who laid down the laws . The ones you say treated women badly were the ones who DISTORTED the laws . I do not regard them as our ancestors at all .
That is a vast subject so I will not go into that .
But Regarding the God thing ...Hindus do namaskar or namaste when they meet ...not to the human body but to the soul inside that body that is divine . Its not just husband who is regarded as God , every human being was respected that way . The wife was regarded as the Laxmi of the house and even if the husband wished to renounce the world and take sanyas , he had to take PERMISSION of the wife .
Sita has put her foot down and refused to stay back with her in laws when Ram set out to the forest , she preferred staying with HIM .
This Pati Parmeshwar thing was distorted by the middle ages . Hinduism is not originally like that at all . How equal the roles of man woman are in the religion is amazing .
Distortion took place , yes . The washing of the groom's feet is there even in Mharashtrian culture . But our ancestors have already warned that these systems need NOT be followed in the Kaliyuga . They have requested that poojas , vidhis need NOT be filtered down and used for convenience as they will hold no meaning . But do we know of this fact ? We don't . And so we go on doing things blindly as we know very little of our own religions and what was really told to us .
Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi 2
