While modernity has crept in, the "Bahu" (daughter-in-law) still carries the heaviest load. She is expected to have a high-powered career like a feminist icon, but also wake up at 4:00 AM to cook like a traditional housewife. She is praised if she works, but criticized if the house is messy.
The afternoon meal is a serious affair. Even if family members are miles away at work or school, they carry home-cooked meals in tiered stainless-steel tiffin boxes. In Mumbai, the world-famous Dabbawalas deliver hundreds of thousands of these hot, home-cooked lunches to office workers daily with mathematical precision, keeping the connection to the family kitchen alive. hot bhabhi twitter full