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Aishwarya Kapoor

When Your Own Family Betrays You, the Ramcharitmanas Has Already Named That Grief

The wound that has no clean name

There is a specific kind of pain that arrives when the person who hurts you most is also the person who was supposed to protect you. A parent who chooses sides. A sibling who watches and says nothing. A spouse's family that dismantles you quietly, with courtesy. The world has words for heartbreak and loss, but this one sits in a register that ordinary language keeps missing. Tulsidas found it first.

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