Why Don't My Parents Understand Me?

In millions of middle-class homes, a quiet war is being fought every night—not with shouting or violence, but with suffocating, heart-wrenching silence.On one side of the dining table sits a child who feels unseen, judged, and crushed under the weight of mark sheets, comparisons, and conditional love. On the other side sits a parent who is terrified, exhausted, and carrying the invisible weight of financial survival, trying to protect their child in the only way they know how. They live under the same roof, eat from the same plates, and carry the same surname, yet exist as complete emotional strangers.Why Don't My Parents Understand Me? is a raw, unflinching, and deeply compassionate journey into the heart of the modern Indian family. Through ten deeply moving human stories set across real homes, this book uncovers the hidden fear behind parental strictness, the quiet agony of teenage isolation, and the reasons why truth goes underground inside our own living rooms.It is not a book of sterile parenting rules or moral lectures. It is a mirror held up to our homes—and a bridge built to bring a father, a mother, and a child back to the same table.