The Punishment Has a Name, Even When Nobody Says It
You know the look. It arrives before anyone opens their mouth, at a family dinner in Pune, at a colleague's wedding in Chennai, in the comment section under a photo you almost didn't post. It is the look that says you have done something that requires explaining. Your partner is younger. You are not. And somehow, in the accounting that Indian society runs on relationships, that arithmetic makes you the problem.
