However, I had a friend who actually defended Saravanan’s action. You see my friend was separated from his wife by mutual consent but later found out that civil laws are highly discriminatory against the male and favour the wife. Not only he lost the custody of his kids but he was also ordered to surrender half of his properties (bought with his own money) and also need to pay monthly maintainance that takes away something like half of his salary. All these made his life miserable and drove him almost to suicide. He works as a manager in a company and due to this financial strain he had to sell off his house and car for a more modest ones. He found himself in such a mess that he went into a depression and had to seek medical help. All the while his wife stays at home and enjoys a higher standards of living than himself while having the kids with her.

My friend is OK now but he is just a shadow of the guy he was once.