#voicethisout Hi Anu, Here are the plights of a pure vegetarian family where the parents are intercaste and one parent is nonvegetarian in a predominantly nonvegetarian society. What eating practices one follows as a family is their own decision and needs to be respected by acquaintances or friends or relations. When we meet someone in a place of food interest, say a restaurant, function, or any party, after getting to know about us.

 The first thing one asks, spare it, even the first-time meeting, or a friend of a friend or a friends hubby I meet for the first time, unabashed seem to ask why not give non vegetarian to my vegetarian kids and offering us or what not nonsense we vegetarians need to endure. We always would like to leave the first meet or greet with a sweet impression but these incidents scar me for life that it leaves a heavy toll on my younger kid who is at an impregnable age, even if an elder kid has matured beyond it and doesn’t let others comments affect our food choices.

We should all bring a communal good feeling in society and respect other’s space and not invade. Just because we have matured from a conventional traditional background who eat only in a vegetarian restaurant or at home, and have opened up to eating in a multicuisine restaurant offering both kinds or eat at a non-vegetarian friend’s home, doesn’t mean we would let go of our principles in the matter of food choice. Request society to be more considerate. For gone are the days, when kids would be wedded in purely arranged marriages, would you do the same torturous thoughts if your daughter-in-law who comes is a pure vegetarian? And make their living cordially with mixed backgrounds in your nonvegetarian homes? please do give it a thought.