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The house, now empty of children and working adults, breathes differently. Dadi sits in her pooja room, the smell of camphor and kumkum thick in the air. She chants the Vishnu Sahasranamam, her fingers moving across the beads automatically. This is not just prayer; it’s her daily audit. She mentally calculates: the vegetable bill from yesterday, the fact that the milkman shorted them 200 ml, and the unspoken tension between Ritika and her younger sister-in-law, Priya, who lives two floors up with her own family. They watch a Bollywood movie from the 90s on a 20-inch TV