I will start.
As some of you know, I rather like Kumud's outspoken, assertive nature. Perhaps because I identify with her so much. She is very different from the simpering, obedient wooden dolls that usually pass for "good" female characters on Indian TV. There are only two Indian soap girls I could ever relate to, one was Khushi and the other is Kumud. The first was because I am also quite nuts and shocking like Khushi. But that is only when people get to know me. Kumud is very much like how I am in real life, how most people see me, etc. I am not as extraordinary for my surrounding as Kumud is, but I do tend to sharp and that cuts my fellow mortals of the opposite sex 😆. I am just your everyday hard working overachiever. Think, girl who terrifies men (even the so called modern American ones, desi or not) with a snappy comment in response to something douchy said to me. I have been known to reduce some desi men to stuttering in class, angry that a girl would beat them in a debate. I am yet to meet someone exciting, so I think it is only possible in stories for a girl like Kumud to be as accepted as Saras accepts and adores her. What do you think?