Jasodhara Bagchi underscores the pervasiveness of motherhood in contemporary Indian culture: “Feminist understanding of motherhood has been central to the unfolding of Indian society from the moment of insertion into the global capitalist system through the colonizing process to the present day when it is directly under the thumb of a market-driven neo-liberal regime of globalization” (xxvi). Preti Taneja’s 2017 adaptation of Shakespeare’s King Lear, entitled We That Are Young, confronts this hegemonic mode of motherhood and the way(s) it is culturally and religiously reified in contemporary India. Taneja’s novel serves to shed light on the pernicious grasp tradition still holds on women in contemporary Indian society and points out that in cultures where mothering is coopted by nationalist or corporatist rhetoric, women are relegated to vessels for future industrious citizens and prevented from mothering, or indeed in many cases, living, on their own terms. This chapter focuses on the choice of non-motherhood by one of the novel’s protagonists, Gargi, and the ways this choice fundamentally undermines her father’s legacy-building project on a micro level and, more broadly, serves as a refusal to perpetuate the hetero-patriarchal structures of the nation.