India, April 26 -- Modern marriage masks old imbalances, where women adjust endlessly, and men still call the shots.

Times have changed dramatically (this with manic repetition whacked into your head) way back since the fag-end of the late 20th Century, and thus this everyday matter is, how would you phrase it, "cobwebby history", so why mull over a reality which has long gone to a cavernous grave, you are admonished?! However, can one dream of striking an equilibrium when the imbalance is so acute, when there is not the slimmest, thinnest chance of standing on a level bridge, when, one of the two, comes with a kind of apology?! Truth, no matter what, one is repeatedly reminded, cannot be glossed over, or a honeyed version of how things ...