“My dear, I don’t mean to discourage you but our society is biased against single mothers but not single fathers. It’s an unfair world out there and fighting the taboo will not be easy.”

For anyone else watching Sneha, it would seem so normal, a girl going out for the night for some late-night party maybe, or maybe she was returning home after a party.

“When everyone around me was advising my father to marry me off, he brushed them aside and trudged with me to coaching classes and then college.”

"Don’t second guess yourself. I have always believed that ‘A child gives birth to a mother!’ and not vice versa."

As for herself, Sarita had a lot of questions for Mai, but something in her mother’s expression had stopped her from asking her why she was here or how long she planned to be here.