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Aishwarya Kapoor

The Debt Indian Parents Create With Their Sacrifice and Why Children Can Never Repay It

The Ledger Opens the Day You Are Born

Your mother gave up her postgraduate seat. Your father ate the same dal-roti for fifteen years so you could have tuition fees, a school blazer, a future that looked nothing like his present. These are facts. They are also the opening entries in a ledger you never agreed to sign, handed to you the moment you were old enough to understand what the word sacrifice meant.

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