The living room, which once brimmed with incessant chatter in the evenings with family members surrounding the television, has gone silent.
Resting in his armchair, an ageing Mr. Biswas, a South Delhi resident, reminisces, "Those days, evenings would be time for family reunion, my sons would come back from work, daughters would prepare tea and snacks and all of us would sit together in front of the television to watch Chitrahaar (a popular musical show in the 80s on national television). Now, my wife and I seldom visit our children settled in different parts of the country".
A joint family is on a disintegrating path ever since society graduated into an age of technological advance, changing gender roles and better employment opportunities. Interdependence on each other in large families seems to have been replaced by independent living and self-sufficient attitude.
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