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The royal drama: All's not fair

Although the Duchess of Sussex, the former Meghan Markle, isn't battling a mother-in-law, in essence her fight is not very different from traditional India's saas-bahu tussle

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Sunanda K Datta-Ray
At first my mind raced back to a March day in 1982 and the drama of Maneka Gandhi’s stormy exit from the prime minister’s residence. Although the Duchess of Sussex, the former Meghan Markle, isn’t battling a mother-in-law, in essence her fight is not very different from traditional India’s saas-bahu tussle. Then, it dawned on me that so many people — Americans especially — would not be making whoopee over a young black girl from nowhere thumbing her nose at Britain’s august and ancient monarch if the defiance had not been especially significant for them.

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