Wives click their tongues and make strange noises about the way they are doomed to the kitchen and the way they are forbidden to dream about a nicer life. But is it that the men alone are responsible for women s problems or is it that other aspects also contribute to the situation.
Men usually don t talk, lest their hideous minds be known to spouses -they remain quiet, composed.
Women like Damini find support systems outside their homes. 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.