The physical and emotional architecture of Indian family life is traditionally the joint family system —a multi-generational household comprising grandparents, parents, uncles, aunts, and cousins. While urbanization and economic pressures have given rise to nuclear families in metropolitan cities, the spirit of the joint family persists. Daily life is a delicate dance of adjustments. The morning begins not with alarm clocks, but with the gentle chai-making of the matriarch, the soft murmur of the grandfather’s morning prayers, and the hurried, overlapping conversations of children getting ready for school.

This is where the daily stories are told.