Critical outlooks have pointed out how while the love present in the relationship between Indira and her second husband, Bhaskar, is foregrounded in Indira’s remarriage, there is no “narrative representation” of them “encountering each other” and “acknowledging their love.” The fact that the other characters had the agency and were instrumental to uniting the two, especially how Indira’s love for Bhaskar was not previously articulated, highlights how the novel conforms to the social novel’s tendency to depict romantic love, without representing “the rites of passage of ‘romance’.”
