Remember, it took just a few years for millets to be back on our plates. As it looks to me, the great Indian joint family is slowly, and maybe steadily, making a comeback in a new avatar.

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The Indian family, wrote novelist VS Naipaul ... education and cultural changes, India's fabled joint family system would slowly disintegrate. Far from it, suggests research by Etienne Breton ...

What makes the family business model different here is the practice of an Indian joint family. A large number of members—not unimaginable to have more than 50—live in a large house with a ...