Today is Mother’s Day and as we scramble to buy last minute gifts for all the mother figures in our lives, let us pause and ask ourselves frankly — at a time when postpartum depression is at its peak, workplaces are especially unforgiving to women who have just given birth, and the immediate family scene is replete with taunts about being a “good mother”, is an engraved pendant or a spa session enough to make mothers happy?

I wonder if anyone remembers the film 'Rashomon', directed by Akira Korasawa. It was about an incident in which all four parties involved had their own perspective on what took place.