Sakshi I take a deep, audible breath when Armaan finally leaves after wolfing down the food that Mom has prepared especially for his Highness. He ate everything that Mom insisted he eat, even though I could tell that he couldn't eat anymore. Then both Dad and he bored us with their business talk. At one point, I had started praying to get him out of the house in one way or another because what is the point of this ritual if my husband isn't vacating my house? I am here in my house, my birth home, so there shouldn't be a guy wandering around with whom I have taken seven pheras and completed so many other ceremonies. Anyhow, now he is gone, and so is this heavy saree on my body. I quickly strip out of it and wear my comfortable oversized tee and lowers. I lie flat on my back on my bed an

