Shopping list: 12 kg peas, 3 kg okra, 7 litres milk

: Every time the women of the Purohit family go grocery shopping, the shopkeepers and the sabziwallahs invariably ask them: do you run a restaurant? After all, not every family buys 12 kg of green peas, 3 kg okra and seven litres of milk. But with 21 members, the Purohit family doesn’t fit into the category of the average family.

“We have four TV sets and we get four sets of three newspapers every day,” says Pallavi, one of the daughters-in-law. Radha Purohit, the matriarch, has seen the household grow from a family of just four in 1969, when she married into it. “My husband was a businessman. He passed away when I was 36 and I was left with our three sons—Raja, Hemant and Sanjay. Now the families of my two brothers—who came to live with me to look after my children and the family business—also live with us,” says Radha. The Purohits and the Hajares have stuck together through thick and thin.

“The major reason for a split in any family is usually an ideological clash between members from different generations. In our house we have an hour-long puja every day but being traditional does not keep us away from modernity,” says Radha. That’s why the traditional Maharashtrian family has no objection to one of its sons aspiring to be a model.

Division of labour is not just a theory in this house, and this has kept the family happy under one roof.

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