My new book ‘The Abandoned Daughter’ is a fictional take of the patriarchal mindset which was and continues to be responsible for the current skewed gender ratio across many parts of the world.

A well-to-do business family, whose members are torn apart by a turbulent father-son relationship shrouded in mistrust, suspicion, and contempt for one another – a result of the vagaries of the son’s mind and its maladies suffers silently. Well-wishers fear that Badri is suffering from a mental derangement and is on the brink of wiping away his father, ...