Thoughts & After-thoughts !

Hello Everyone! So, as the title suggests, this is a blog post about my firsthand experience of life in a Joint Family system. But before I proceed further, I want to add a disclaimer that in no way I desire to generalize my own experience as the only representative model of a joint family. Rather, the more apt title for this article would be My Life Experience in a Middle-class small town Indian Joint Family. But, then, I feel that the title would become too long and too boring to get your attention! So with things clarified beforehand let me now take you into my experience of Life in a Joint Family. Indian family system does comprise of broadly two kinds of families, first being the Nuclear Family where only two generations live together, and the second being the traditional Joint Family System where as many generations live together as possible! However, there are many small variations among these two classifications as well, and I don't want to dig that deep into in this wri

I have been contemplating about starting a blog since long. However, I didn't know much about the basics of blogging. I randomly googled about 'What is a blog?', 'How to write a blog etc.' During the search process, I came across a blog post about Top 10 Blog site/domains etc. There I found Medium and Blogger as the two suited to my needs. This is my very first blog post today. I am writing this as the Earth is under Quarantine (for Humans) in the wake of the Corona Virus Pandemic. We often say that the mother earth's survival is under threat, that it needs to be protected from Climate Change, from Deadly Weapons etc. However, we fail to realise that it is not the Earth whose survival is under threat, rather, it is We   the Humans whose survival is under threat. It is the Crises like the present one that make us think the other way round. To think that the Earth has always been there, it is We the Humans who were not always there. We the Sapie