The house was inherited from an uncle

What about all those aunts and uncles?

Aunties, uncles, you can continue to put your hands up, aunties and uncles as well.

We grew up listening to my mother and father communicate in English, and the communication with aunts and uncles, close friends, and other members of our extended family was always in that language too.

Travels to Cuba by uncles and aunts and cousins, among others, have even been prohibited, with the argument that they are not family.

I was born and raised here in India, and I learned from an early age to be deeply suspicious of the aunties and uncles who would bend down, pat us on the head and then say to my parents with no problem at all,

Everybody who is my dad's age, male in the community, is my father by default my uncles, all of them and they dictate what my future is.

These controls cover a range of interactions and behaviour like segregated sleeping areas and general avoidance relationship between uncles and aunts, brothers and sisters and parents.

I don't know why it is one of these psychology sharps could explain it, I suppose but uncles and aunts, as a class, are always dead against the drama,

They are also a time when the value of the extended family network can really be seen in action. In the past marriages were arranged between the bridegroom's family and the family of the bride, usually through uncles or a highly placed male in the family.

I was born and raised here in India, and I learned from an early age to be deeply suspicious of the aunties and uncles who would bend down, pat us on the head and then say to my parents with no problem at all, Poor things. You only have three daughters.