Write about a few of your favorite family traditions.

Marriage in a Hindu family is unique. 

Boys and girls don’t see each other before marriage. Parents and elders choose the matches. And, elders place hope on astrology for the best match.

Grooms and brides consummate their marriage on the FDFS. It’s called strangely “First Night” though.

Girls mostly are destined to mean jobs at home such as cooking, washing and cleaning.

They are not allowed to mix freely with others when they are on periods.

By middle ages, the couple mostly sleep separate and sex between the elderly is a taboo. They spend a major part of life by sitting in front of TV. They watch anything from soap to sports to stupidity.

Children in India are forced to study professional courses such as engineering and medicine. For reasons that brides bring in a lot of wealth to boys’ homes as dowry in marriage. 

At homes in India, girls are married off younger and earlier than boys. The reason is to make them work at mean jobs and be useful to the boys’ family.

A childless marriage is often blamed on the girl. But the boys are considered omnipotent.

When a wife dies at old age, the husband can re-marry but a wife can’t. She is a loner during the marriage and continues to be one even after her husband dies. 

Women in traditional Hindu family in India often suffer a “miserable life”.