:::Chander n Alka Appreciation thread :::

A 23 year old spunky, bright and witty girl; living in New York when we find her; she is a very today's girl; living alone; very cosmopolitan; very independent; has a little fuzzy worldview, essentially due to the privileged life she has led so far. She is at a stage where she is studying architecture but she is yet to discover her true calling in life; when we find her she does not even know if there is anything like a true calling because she has not seen depravity of any sort; conflict of any kind; all the important decisions of her life have been made by parents; her father essentially, like which college will she go to; what subjects will she read, when she should be getting married etc; she has been so accustomed to this kind of living that she has never even thought that she too can have an opinion about her life and the choices that are made for her; but off late she is not too comfortable with idea of marrying an Indian and settling in India, something her father has been very softly suggesting. She was sent to hostel when she was just 12; and now her visits to India has been restricted to occasional vacations; somewhere she connects more with her current life in New York and the freedom that she has just started exploring.

During the course of the series we see her evolve from being an under dog in situations and turmoil in India to become a woman who discovers that she not only has all the power to write her own destiny but also to change the course of history.