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However, this burden is shifting. A growing movement of urban women is drawing "digital boundaries"—silencing family groups during work hours or refusing to be the default caretaker for aging in-laws without male sibling participation. The rise of and co-living spaces in cities like Pune and Hyderabad signifies a radical lifestyle choice: living alone before (or instead of) marriage.
But inside her modest steel almirah, hidden beneath layers of silk sarees, lay a grey suitcase. It was packed not with clothes, but with dreams.
Instead, she asked, “How does the solar stove work?”