An elegy for choice, an illusion we offer our girls, and as an extension, our women. Because how dare they think for themselves, right?!

Here is a list of things parents of daughters need to speak up about, but they keep mum and let the daughters suffer. Don't.

Ever since Amma’s death, she had felt so alone, all alone in a world full of people who wanted to know her, be with her, but none of whom she loved or wanted to know.

As if all I was good for was to raise kids and manage the household. As if me being educated and ambitious was something wrong. I felt humiliated and embarrassed.

Tribhanga literally means divided into three, and is about three generations of women, their strengths and flaws; their compulsions and choices; their triumphs and losses; and their difficult relationships.