Sundays are also dedicated to extended family bonding. Large family lunches, shopping trips to local markets, or hosting relatives for high tea are standard weekend fixtures.

Unlike the Western ideal of nuclear independence, the traditional (and still prevalent) Indian family structure is a joint family system—or a close approximation thereof. Even when distance separates them, the "daily life story" of an Indian is rarely written in the first person. It is always a we story.

The Indian family lifestyle is not one story, but a million unfinished sentences. It is the mother who hides chocolates in the atta (flour) container. It is the father who fixes the wifi router while muttering about "modern nonsense." It is the grandmother who slips a ₹500 note into your palm when your parents aren't looking.