I believe that Gogol and Moushumi were never good together from the start. They were polar opposites. Moushumi is very pretentious and uptight while Gogol is on the more calm kind of side who doesn't speak his mind much. Moushumi comes into his life just when he is looking to reconnect with his Indian roots and she is indian as well. She can relate to Gogol's growing up with immigrant parents. In fact, the two of them have quite a few things in common: they're both Indian, they both have artistic tastes, they both have bad relationships with their foreign names, and they both went to high universities. Turns out that's exactly what makes their marriage a "mistake”. "They had both sought comfort in each other, and in their shared world, perhaps
