India, Aug. 7 -- Ensconced in his living room, Mahesh Kumar, 60, is evaluating his life. All his five brothers are gone from the world, he says. "There are things you can discuss only with your siblings. that is no longer possible for me." There are also things that one is comfortable sharing only with the immediate family. In that, Mahesh is fortunate. He lives with wife, Renu, in their first-floor flat in Kotla Mubarakpur, along with daughter Himanshi, son Varun, and dog Simba. The eldest child, Ritika, lives with her husband elsewhere in the city. As he natters on, wife Renu enters the living room carrying a tea tray. Her gaze instinctively lifts towards the small temple clamped to the wall, beside the portraits of Mahesh's departed pare...