These are the stories that don't make it to Instagram but define the lifestyle.

The lights are off. Raj and Priya whisper in bed about money, school fees, and Dadi’s blood pressure. Aryan texts his crush. Kavya reads a comic under the blanket. The house is quiet. But the back door is open. Because in an Indian home, the door is never locked until the last person is home.

Sunday is not a day of rest.

Everyone leaves. The house falls silent, but not for long. The maid (did you think Indians clean their own floors? The middle class survives on the bai/maid) arrives. Meanwhile, Dadi turns on the TV to the saas-bahu soap opera. She yells at the villainous daughter-in-law on screen, oblivious that she is slightly yelling at her own daughter-in-law in real life.

For three months of the year, the family lifestyle shifts to "Wedding Mode."

Let us walk through a day in the life of the Sharma family—Raj (father, bank manager), Priya (mother, school teacher), Dadi (grandmother, 72), and Aryan (son, 16) & Kavya (daughter, 12).