Report: Indian Family Lifestyle and Daily Life Stories
Cultural Traditions and Celebrations
Conclusion
Introduction
The Serving Hierarchy
Mother serves everyone. Father eats first. Kids eat second. Mother eats last, often standing in the kitchen, eating leftover roti dipped in the remaining dal. This is an unspoken law of the Indian family lifestyle. You try to make her sit, but she refuses. "I'm fine here," she says, hovering.
jugaad
What holds the Indian family lifestyle together is not just tradition, but (a Hindi word for a frugal, creative fix) and adjustment .