Eumind Family Life

Research Work
We interviewed parents and grandparents to compare their
generations and asked them a lot of questions related to
their family life and some of them are given below with their
answers.

Q.1 How many people were there in your

parents family?

Suresh Arora - There were 48 people in all.

Shreya Rupani There were 7 people in all.
Minal Shah - There were 10 people in all.
Rajesh Mehta- There were 11 people in all.
Indira Sharma - There were 15 people in all.
Alka Malhotra - They were 16 people in all.
Prakash Mistry - They were 8 in all.
Reyna Rupani - They were 4 people in all.
Kunal Rupani - They were 7 people in all.
Mala Alone They were 5 people in all.

Q. 2 What was the profession of your father/

mother?

Suresh Arora-Mother - Housewife

Father - Herbal (Ayurvedic) Doctor.
Shreya Rupani - Mother - Housewife
Father - Businessman
Minal Shah - Mother Housewife
Father - Businessman
Rajesh Mehta- Mother - Housewife
Father Businessman
Indira Sharma - Mother - Housewife
Father Textile shopkeeper
Alka Malhotra - Mother - Commercial Artist
Father - Pottery Expert
Prakash Mistry - Mother - Housewife
Father - Furniture Business
Reyna Rupani - Mother - Housewife

Father Insurance Broker

Kunal Rupani - Mother - Knitting Businessman
Father - Railway Administrative
Mala Alone - Mother - Housewife
Father Businessman

Q.3 What main values were taught by your

parents when you were a teenager?

Suresh Arora - They were taught to be obedient and

respectful. They were also taught to be united, not to have
too many fights, be polite and to be humble in every
approach.
Shreya Rupani The main values were to take care of your
responsibility and being honest.
Minal Shah The main values were to respect the elders
and be truthful and faithful.
Rajesh MehtaThe main values were to be truthful,
respecting elders, being loyal to your family, etc.
Indira SharmaThe main values were being disciplined,
loving everyone and work hard.
Alka Malhotra- The main values taught by the parents were
of always speaking the truth, helping the needy and taking
care of elders.

Prakash Mistry- The main values taught by the parents

were to work hard in your studies, to be responsible, be
proactive and to do your best.
Reyna Rupani- The main values taught by the parents were
to put your full effort in everything you do and work as a
team.
Kunal Rupani- The main values taught by the parents were
being clean, going for spiritual classes and praying to god
regularly.
Mala Alone -The main values taught by the parents were to
be punctual and be a support to all the family members

Q.4 Was there any hierarchy in the family

(father-mother-boys-girls)? Explain.

Suresh Arora-There was hierarchy but only to a certain

limit. The father was the eldest so he had the control over
all. The mother was to work at home and had the right to
education only up till an age of 10. Girl education was also
allowed but only till the 10th whereas boys were allowed to
complete their course of education.
Shreya Rupani No there wasnt any hierarchy, girls and
boys were given equal rights.
Minal Shah There was a particular hierarchy practised in
which only the boys were given the rights to study and go to
school whereas girls were supposed to do the household
work.

Rajesh MehtaThere was discrimination of the siblings on

basis of colour
Indira Sharma - No there wasnt any hierarchy.
Alka Malhotra- No, there wasn't any hierarchy in the family.
All the members of the family could have their own space
and say.
Prakash Mistry - There was no hierarchy in their age.
Reyna Rupani - There was equality between all the family
members.
Kunal Rupani There was no hierarchy.
Mala Alone No hierarchy practised.

Q.5 Do you think that the role of a family has

changed?

Suresh Arora-Yes, the role of the family has changed. Joint

and Nuclear families both have its advantages and
disadvantages but a nuclear family has more disadvantages
than a joint one. According to him the family culture or
sanskaar as we call it in Hindi is missing in a nuclear

family. The close support and extra help and care in every
task are not received. Even the affection received from all is
not present in a nuclear family.
Shreya Rupani Yes, the role of family life has changed. At
our time, people used to spend a lot of time together but
nowadays families do not spend a lot of time together
because they are busy in their set, sedentary lifestyles.
Minal Shah -Yes, the role of family life has changed because
nowadays people spend a lot of their time indoors and earlier
the families used play games and enjoys a lot outdoors which
is not possible now considering the busy schedules of the
each person in the family.
Rajesh Mehta No. The role of family life has not changed
because according to him everything is same in his family
and there are not much significant changes in the family
custom.
Indira SharmaYes, the role of family life has changed.
According to her, the children of the present age are given
more freedom of choice as compared to their generation.

Alka Malhotra - Yes, the role of family in ones life has

definitely changed. Due to time constraints the conversations
that happen at the table during lunches and dinners are
decreasing. As we are running in the rat race to earn money
and fame that we forget to set aside some time for our family.

To earn more they need to obviously work more which

reduces the hours one is there at home. Also because of this
the children mind gets diverted and they don't feel that
sharing everything with a parent is important. It doesn't
really matter to them as they're parents are working and
don't have time for them so they get full freedom of doing
whatever they want to.
Prakash Mistry - Yes, the role of family life has changed as
nowadays children speak very freely to their parents and
openly share their personal problems and ideas; whereas the
children of their times had a constant fear of their parents
and were afraid to tell them anything as they thought they
would get a beating or shouting in exchange.
Reyna Rupani The role of family has changes and hasnt
changed because she thinks it really depends on each
individual of the family of how smoothly the relationship
between the family members runs.
Kunal Rupani Yes, the role of family life changed through
the generations because there is a great technology
advancement and betterment in the quality of life.
Teenagers now understand life more because they have more
knowledge due to the advanced schooling and the one to one
attention of the teachers to each student.
Mala Alone Yes, the role of family life has changed as
earlier joint families were preferred more than nuclear
families and everyone was not given much attention due to
the excess number of family members.

Family...
Where life begins

&

Love never ends.