Hayati, good post. It's amazing how this topic has such wings and complexities. I understand about how people are raised and how this impacts their whole life...but my assumption and that of human evolution is that people change for their own well-being and survival but also for those around them. CHANGE is a fundamental process that has to happen in women...otherwise, you have little girls with little brains in big girl clothes and bodies and big situations. And this IS what Abha is. She never grew up to be something or someone. Just a daughter. I respect to some degree her love for her family...which by the way loves her back, expect for one person--the THAKUR. She has her family's blessing and acceptance except that of her nut-job father. And honestly, sometimes, even family members with their negativity and even with your continued love, remain lost causes. And that is what Thakur is. I would not be spending every free minute thinking of him, as Abha does. It is Thakur's punishment in life that he is obnoxious and stupid...if he does NOT understand his own upbringing and religion to understand how treat his family, his daughter, other people, then his fate is sealed....he will pay in his next life and this time, his daughter will not have a daddy-fixation.