She is totally involved in her illicit affair with Ashok, she could not provide attention and care to her legal relationships in life. She neglects her duties towards her children and forgets about their emotional needs. Shagun becomes distressed because of her situation, as she is torn between family duties and her own happiness in illicit affair. The frustration makes her more aggressive about her emotional fulfillment. She suffers a lot due to emotional trauma. Neither she became happy in her illicit relationship nor in her legal relationship. She becomes the epitome of fractured identity of an individual. When Raman becomes aware of her affair, instead of apologizing, she asks for divorce.
Manju Kapur has portrayed Raman as an ideal human
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The two children, Arjun and Roohi, become the ‘sandwich’ between two mothers and two fathers. No one understands children’s pain and emotional trauma. Shagun always brainwashed Arjun against his father that makes Arjun to hate his father. She denied becoming submissive for herself to the traditional values and chose to lead free, autonomous life. However, she forgets about her children’s traumas that were in extreme need of father and mother’s love, care and attention. Both Shagun and Raman fail to understand each other and now the situation worsen. Raman and Shagun both realize uselessness of hope of promising future in nuptial tie. The sacred bond of happy marriage has broken in the form of …show more content…
Shagun is a very beautiful woman who wants the separate identity from her family while Raman is brilliant and practical man who believes in the concept of family. These prospects make Raman rather practical and put the marriage on stake. He spends long hours, working for a successful company that manufactures soft drinks. It is the beginning of globalization, and rising Indian enterprises are projecting their business round the country and abroad. At the beginning of the story, he is in his traditional role of father and husband, the head of the family, who goes out to the world to fight and make money for one who has to be looked after when he comes back home, but also who does not care much for his own wife or