: Dinner is a key bonding time where stories are shared and major life decisions are often discussed with elders.
The children return, starving as if they haven't eaten in weeks. They drop their shoes at the door (a sacrilege to wear shoes inside) and shout, "Mummy, bhookh lagi hai!" (Mom, I’m hungry!). The father returns, loosening his tie, immediately falling into the embrace of the Takht (wooden bed) in the drawing room. : Dinner is a key bonding time where