Forget the tired example of the multigenerational joint family in a village; in urban India, kinship now operates through what I call the "WhatsApp joint family." My research in Asansol shows siblings maintain a shared domestic economy—pooling for parents' medical bills, children's tuition—while living in separate flats across the city. The real *adda* happens in the family group chat, planning pujas or arguing over property papers. I see it every weekend when my own daughter sends money for my *mishti* from Delhi, a digital *gurudakshina* that sustains our connection.
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