When Devi inquired about Uma's short married life, Dadi narrated Amba's story. As if the myths were reproducing themselves before her eyes, Devi draws a parallel between the story of Amba in the Mahabharata and Uma, an ordinary girl and Devi's cousin. Uma marries into a wealthy family. She was a motherless girl and led her life as an orphan despite her father because her father was “hostile” (Hariharan, TFN 35) to her. For an orphan like her, it was a sign of great luck, “…to have found a partner in a rich house…” (Hariharan, TFN 35). So everyone considered her lucky and she got married with great celebrations. Every corner of their house was cleaned and decorated. One day, Devi glanced furtively into newly married Uma's room when her husband "grabbed her hand and a look passed between them, a sort of signal..." (Hariharan, TFN 35 ). This closely reflects the harmony and rhythm between the two. But this outward-looking harmony and rhythm was actually her husband's carnal passion and as soon as he was satisfied, he had started misbehaving with Uma. In fact, her husband and father were drunkards and every day, “…drank until she was stunned with fear…” (Hariharan, TFN 35). She was trying to adapt to all of this even though she wasn't prepared for it. But everything has its limits. In Uma's case, the barriers of her tolerance and her relationship with her husband were broken when one day, crossing all the respective limits, her father-in-law, "...kissed her roughly on the lips" (Hariharan , TFN 35) and her husband did not react and even behaved as if nothing had happened. After this incident, Uma left her husband and never returned to him and this seems quite obvious from a