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10 Things Indian Mothers Did Not Let Their Daughters Do! (Missmalini)

May 14, 2015
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Mothers are the most amazing creation of God. Regardless of their worldview, mothers are the reason that we can go on from one day to the next, through sunshine and rain, through happiness and pain. Before I get too mawkish, let me explain.

I always find mothers from my generation tell their children about the things they were not allowed to do when they were young and although some of our mothers were modern and permissive, by and large, the warp and weft of our lives back then was determined more by the things we were not allowed while growing up than what we were permitted.

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