Mrs. Chatterjee and the cultural shock
Sooo watched any movies lately? I (ahem with my extremely busy schedule) recently watched Rani Mukherjee’s Mrs Chatterjee vs Norway and as you might have guessed, this blog is about a very mature ( unlike me !) topic of Norway’s welfare system and differences in culture. For the unversed, the movie is mainly about children being snatched away (literally) from their parents by the social services of Norway for a variety of reasons that were twisted and false. The movie is about how a mother fights an entire country's system to get her children back and is based on the real life of Sagarika Chakraborty. The movie is a tear jerker and has made its audience very emotional by the time it ends. Norway is a developed country with high standard of living, education and social development. It is also one of the highest ranked country on the world happiness index but is it really that happy? Sagarika Chakraborty’s case has raised eyebrows at Barnevernet, its welfare system...