The son, with an irritated eye roll explains, “See Pa, Dhriti equals ‘they’ — Dhriti likes to be called ‘they, them’ not ‘she, her’.”

Illustration/Uday Mohite

In one of the early episodes of The Family Man: Season 3, an exhausted Srikant Tiwari (Manoj Bajpayee) asks his son, Atharva, why his daughter, Dhriti is in such a bad mood.

“‘They’ have a lot on their mind, ‘they’ are climate champions, LGBT warriors, ‘they’ are social media influencers, ‘they’ are worried about a lot of things,” the son says.

“Who are ‘they’? Your sister is one person, who are ‘they’,” the flummoxed Srikant asks.

The son, with an irritated eye roll explains, “See Pa, Dhriti equals ‘they’ — Dhriti likes to be called ‘they, them’ not ‘she, her’.”

“But why?” Srikant asks

“Oh ho, Dad, she’s a non-binary person.”

After a beat Bajpayee asks. “Accha this ‘they’ aur ‘them’, Hindi main kya bolenge?”

The son for once is perplexed, he says,........

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