We are the world

The Kanga clan comprises a chequerboard of cousins
Bachi Karkaria

"I ’ve got the whole world in my hand,” goes the Bo Carter song. It took my half-Bengali, Copenhagen-based nephew’s visit home to get my Bombay Saraswat daughter-in-law to Calcutta where her Parsi husband spent his childhood. His brother, my number one son, lives in Atlanta, USA, with his Gujju-Georgia wife. If they’d come too, it would have been a first-time fam jam of my Kanga clan. At GenZ, ours has become a melting pot. Or Scandinavian smorgasbord, courtesy aforesaid nephew’s Danish wife. The mix began with his mum, my mid-sister Yasmin, who married her State Bank of India colleague......



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