I will explain a situation that happened to our neighbors.
They are a happy husband and wife with two daughters, educated and working. They have a decent house, business and some property.
First daughter is married within the family, but got divorced very soon, reasons unknown to me.
Second daughter is married, have one kid, husband and wife working in two different cities. So, her mother brought the grandchild with her and is taking care of the grandchild.
In the mean time they incurred some loss in business. They were trying to get the first daughter married but that was not happening. In the mean time , the man of the house met with a road accident and died. The lady of the house who is uneducated and innocent, got the first daughter married, sold the house to pay off debts and moved into a rental house and living with the grand daughter while the daughters and respective husbands are working out of town. They must definetely be helping their mother.
The reason I am boring you with this story is -
There is nothing wrong for a daughter to help her parents in the time of need and there are many daughters who do that.
That said, it is a very delicate and sensitive issue in the case of pratigya. In the above case, the daughters are already settled in their jobs and they have their independent income. In the case of pratigya she has to start working now, and should give them a reason why she has to work. For that she should have maintained a good relationship with husband and inlaws so far.
For a second let us forget SS's mindset and K's employment status and let us think that they are fair and reasonable FIL and Husband. But we have to remember that SS's daughter Komal is married in P's house and SS once offered gift (or dowry) to Prof and Prof refused.
So now, even if SS senses the financial status of his daughter's hous e and want to help them, he cannot proceed without doubts based on his past experience.
In my opinion, based on their relationships and conditions, it should SS, S and K who should be thinking about the financial difficulties of the daughters house and approaching them to help. And if adarsh and Prof has some buddi, they should accept it till they come out of the situation.
Though I still do not understand why they have to get into such pitiful financial state in the first place. I understand and agree that raising 3 kids, having all of them educated is not a easy task for a middle class family. But we have to remember that Prof has not spent a single penny for Adarsh or P's marriage. He should be planning for 3 marriages as well, where as he got to spend only for one marriage. What is the reason to become pennyless by spending for one marriage. Does it have to be so lavish, that he will become penny less.
And I think there will be some thing like sick leave with pay, accidental insurance etc. which people use (especially the working class).
Didn't prof and Adarsh know about these
or never looked into these? Strange for the samajdhar padi liki family.
What ever situation I explained above is much more worse than what happened to proffeser and his family. The mother and the daughters came out of it with dignity.