Around a month back, I decided I would improve my productivity on this “learning in public” front by lowering my threshold for what I can publish, and by learning whatever is convenient in that moment. The result of that decision is this first topic that I am publishing on. Amongst the very many other things that happen during a wedding, there is a lot of meeting each others family. Of course this prompted a series of realisations about the immense size and strength of Indian families. But I also realised that many relationship names with my aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents are just noises to me. I don’t really understand why one person is a ‘chithi’ or a ‘mami’ or an ‘athai’.
I am Indian but I don???t speak Hindi!
India is a Union of States as described in Article 1 on Indian Constitution . India is a union of 29 states . Of…