It is heartwarming how many dads fight patriarchy in their own way, and let their daughters be what they want to.

In the end, Indian parents end up failing their girls by telling them to compromise or adjust and forget all the virtues of equality that they had instilled in them since childhood. It suddenly becomes of paramount importance that their daughter’s life charts the course determined for her by the very patriarchal society, which we looked down upon as a deterrent to her prosperity.