Kerala's Joint-Family Memory, And What The Next Generation Keeps
From ancestral home to apartment block — what changed, and what stayed.
The ancestral joint-family home is a memory for most young Keralites, not an address. Yet the habits it built — shared meals, elders' advice, festivals at home — still shape how families live.[1]
We visited three generations of one family to ask what they would keep, and what they are glad to let go.
“The ancestral home is a memory for most young Keralites, not an address.”
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