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There is a moment in modern Indian family life that arrives with the regularity of the seasons. A son or daughter comes home — or calls — and announces a promotion. And before the joy of the news has fully settled, before the congratulations have finished echoing in the room, something else arrives. A question. An expectation. A gentle, then insistent, suggestion that perhaps now — now that there is stability, now that there is a better salary, now that the future looks more