[heygiwriter]

How about sharmi hiding her marriage? Whats the purpose? Nikki and her seems close but why would someone hide such things from friends?

Sharmi the character has a dedicated story line, she has a reason to hide it, she and her husband trying for kids and to avoid constant question on kids, she avoid telling about her marital status, and people are judgmental even Nikitha look out for mangalsutra in neck and metti in toe and assume she was un married, with Sharmi being name used in cross cultures, it made natural for people to assume she is unmarried, so no questions arise and she is not obliged to tell anyone. 

I had a chapter but i scrapped it as i feel its too prolonged one, it goes like Sharmi and Jay coming out of hospital, like Jay know about her medical issues and he take her to a known doctor who could solve her problem, and Nikki seeing them and think they were in affair, looking at hospital name, she think otherwise, i completely removed this chapter and angle, these happens before business trip, as i wanted to play more with feelings or emotions than situational misunderstandings. 

This is how when we write characters they always have purpose and a back story, even naming them have a purpose. If i had used a name Jennifer , Nikki would have asked are you married. Using Sharmila a name used in common, she thought otherwise. Authors liberty to make them deliver a point :)