Dear Ravi,

This is a story about the quiet debts we owe our mothers — and how easily they get forgotten in the noise of ordinary life. It follows a mother who gives her whole self to her son’s happiness, only to become, in his eyes, an inconvenience.

Ravi is an ordinary middle-class man caught between two loves: the mother who raised him, and the wife he has built a life with. Under the weight of that pressure, his sense of duty toward his mother begins to fade. He still loves her — but the responsibility feels heavier than the love. Worn down by the tension at home, Anjali and Ravi make a decision that changes everything: they move his mother into a care facility.

What follows is not a story of blame, but of reckoning. As his mother’s quiet intuition and his own guilt collide, Ravi is forced to see what he’d been too tired to notice — that her love never asked for anything back. It takes her visiting him in his dreams for him to finally understand what she meant to him all along.