Households are traditionally patriarchal, with the eldest male as the head and his wife supervising domestic affairs. Daily Life & Rituals
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The lockdown of 2020 rewrote the script. For one year, the family was locked inside the same four walls. No school, no office, no maid. Fathers learned to cook chai . Mothers became Zoom teachers. Children realized their parents had anxiety too. While it was traumatic, it forced intimacy. The family discovered they actually liked each other? Mostly. Sometimes. Children realized their parents had anxiety too
In most Indian households, the day does not begin with an alarm clock; it begins with the clinking of steel utensils. Meet the Sharmas of Jaipur. Grandpa (Daduji) is already in the "pooja room," the incense smoke curling around brass idols. The sound of his Sanskrit chanting mixes with the pressure cooker’s whistle from the kitchen.