Daily life story #4: When a married daughter comes to visit her parents, she cannot leave empty-handed. The mother packs a bag of "rations": a jar of homemade pickle, 2 kilos of rice, frozen theplas (flatbread) that will last a month, and old newspapers (for kachra - garbage). The son-in-law has to physically struggle to lift the bag to the car. The daughter cries a little as the car pulls away. This happens every time. It never gets old.

Daily life is often governed by a series of unspoken "scripts" written decades ago. The Morning Ritual : Houses are often swept every single day