This may be an incident of the past. Now nucleus family is the order of the day, especially among Hindus and Christians. Nowadays, how many families have you come across having brothers and sisters.
In the earlier days, immovable properties were given to sons and movable properties like jewels, cash etc. are given to daughters at the time of marriage.
The law is modified and the daughter have equal right now.
Take my case:
My father-in-law, who is no more, had five daughters; one daughter was given on adoption. Of the four, two are employed (second and third - my wife) and the remaining two are house wives. As long as my mother-in-law was in good health, she had been shunting between my house and my first co-brother's. After becoming sick, she is with my first co-brother, whose wife is not employed, and is being looked after by a permanent attendant. My wife is used visit her mother during week-ends. At the time of writing this blog, she is there. The second daughter, who is very well employed in a PSU, is in Chennai and never calls her mother frequently. In the case of fourth, who is in Bangalore, she used to call once in a fortnight.
Recently, one of my schoolmates celebrated his Shastiupthapoorthy (60th birthday), the first from our batch. He has two elder brothers and two younger brothers, apart from three sisters. One of his younger brothers is in Singapore. At the time of function, all have assembled in Chennai and conducted the function very well.
Kannadasan's song is a bad example. He was an extravagant. He approached his brother AL Srinivasan, after spending all money, for help, but he refused knowing his character. Kannadasan's is an expert to write songs according to real situations happened to him. His film Karuppupanam was a flop. He had to give some amount to Gemini Studios. Knowing his condition, SS Vasan waived that amount.
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