UPSC: CENTRAL ASSITANT COMMANDANT PART-1
The family, after all, is the bedrock of the Indian social unit. We Indians ae as self-seeking as anyone else, but we are not individualists in the Western mode; India is not hospitable terrain for 'atomic man' since India is anything done in India we require pher people - allies who see heir interests as ours. Such allies are most readily found within the cocoon of a family unit, which generates our most vital support, practical , material and psychological, as well as the most important of our social duties and obligations. But we define family more Indian than the rest of the workd. We are after, the only country in the world where even the taxman recognizes the extended kintu family spanning several generations and several branches of the family tree, living together in an arrangement legally known as the 'Hindu Undivided Family's. India is not welfare state in hat the government provides little to ou unfortunates. but it is a welfare society in which people consta