Savitaben,80 years old lady lives in very small village in India. She is my grandma. Savitaben was born in very rich Indian family. Her father was a business man in small town.

      My grandma told me about her early life, In their time girls were not allowed to go to the college and also not allow to work out side. Even though she was doing really good in school after she completed her middle school. She had to quit her studies as decided by elder family members. She strongly believes that any decision taken by elders and experience persons of the family must be for their children’s good future and must have some strong reason behind it, so despite that she wasn’t happy with the decision she accepted it as a respect to the elders. After finishing her middle school she have to stay at home and help other family members in daily routine work. She started helping her mom for cooking, cleaning house, doing everyday‘s routine activity and additionally she have to take care of elder member of the family. She was not allowed to go out with friends for movie, shopping or fun. It was family’s believe and tradition that girls are not allow to do any enjoyment out side the home, as our society does not allow that for many other reasons. Now as a part of our family tradition her parents have stared looking for her a life partner, finding the perfect partner for one's child can be a challenging task. They use their social networks to locate potential grooms of appropriate social and economic status. Almost all Indian children are raised with the expectation that their parents will arrange their marriages. As a tradition after marriage she have to go and to live with strangers in a home that she has never visited before ,and adjust herself to their rituals, routine and cuisine as a part of culture. In India earlier homes were housed themselves together in very large families, where one can actually see three or four generation put up together. She stated living with her husband’s large family home. As a part of tradition she also changed her middle name after marriage. It was very tough for her initially to learn new things from her husband’s family tradition and culture for instance, that families gives a lot of importance to lighting the diya in the evening and also each person in family has a habit of doing the puja (worship) in his own way, So learned lots of new things and changes, Infact  she enjoyed accepting those changes as she was taught that In India the family culture is all about love and patience.

       My Grandma has three children and she always taught them about our culture and tradition and so my mom . Tradition in India is about values that transcend down generations automatically. For instance they taught us about what to do on special occasions, what type of food to prepare, what to wear on special festival, go to temple every week, donate money, food, clothes etc. they taught us about special occasion for gifting and seeking the blessing from elders is our culture .An individual takes blessings from his elders by touching their feet. Elders drill and pass on the Indian culture within us as we grow. We also learned that It is important to respect and hold certain traditions which are unique in terms of cooking, rituals and belief. She always advice us to spend more time with our family also ask us to wear traditional clothes like sari and suite at temple also during special festivals.  Also taught us to observe and celebrate traditional festival with love and respect. Even though we have accepted right mix of western influence, modern ways of living and improved our life style , after  I came to know about our culture and tradition I can say that a person can change his way of clothing, way of eating and living but the rich values in a person always remains unchanged because they are deeply rooted within our hearts, mind, body and soul which we receive from our culture. My Grandma always advice us to maintain the ethic family tradition. So according to me my Grandma is perfect example of our cultural product.