This year Rakhi is special.

The elder sister of Nimit, Nimisha is visiting her paternal home for the first time after her marriage. Nimisha got married in December last year and after marriage is now settled in Mumbai. Though the distance between Ahmedabad and Mumbai is not much but due to all the responsibilities and restrictions Nimisha wasn't able to visit them in the last eight months.

Today also Nimit was supposed to visit her in Mumbai but last moment Nimisha's sister-in-law due to some business conference on the day of Rakshabandhan wasn't able to travel to Mumbai, her paternal home which she visits every year past 7 years since her marriage, from Udaipur. So Nimisha and her husband were visiting her the day after. Ahmedabad was en route to Udaipur so finally Nimisha could come to her maika even if it was only for a day. Cherry on the cake was that one day was the day of Rakshabandhan.

Nimisha had been an ideal daughter, an ideal sister, an ideal student and now she was trying to play the role of an ideal daughter in law and an ideal wife. In all this time spent and constant hard work on being ideal she used to be so exhausted that she could never be herself for once. Her wishes, her dreams became secondary and fulfilling others expectations was her priority, as always.

When during her school or college days when she wanted to spend time with her friends, to...