In a few counselling sessions, she brings herself out to the sunshine and daylight and into the so- called main stream New York life, where she has to slog at home and at her job and come back to a cold and unfriendly nest. She is a Doctor with visa problems, who was confined to the four walls of her home and generally started wasting away. As for Namrata, her life revolved around ego clashes with her husband, Though the couple did not see anything wrong in her being a housewife, a large number of their friends whose wives were professionals and left their child rearing responsibilities to American day care systems, taunted her and degraded her whenever possible, driving her crazy. Ultimately she took refuge in a job. Dislocated her children and husband from herself and was happy to tell everyone about her new found status.
Many women suffer depression due to various reasons in America.
Indians who live here have tried to adapt themselves to the stressful American lifestyle, an alien concept as compared to the well knit Indian family structure. In India people help each other, support and at the same time take a jab at the unwanted eccentricities in society. In the United States, each one is left to his own devices and does get lost in the myriad colors of western culture. Perhaps these things lead mothers and fathers to abuse children. It seems that Indian women suffer because of redundant Indian values in America.