Post by adman on Mar 28, 2008 18:40:42 GMT -5
More than 40 years later, it seems somehow appropRIAAte that the Sahotas now run a laundrette in Coventry, the city to which Surinder was sent at the end of the Arctic winter of 1963 to marry a man she had never met before. She was 19. Her prospective husband, Kundan Sahota, was not much older but already earning £38 a week in a car factory. "It was very good money at the time," he says, "and it meant that I could buy a house with my brother before our brides arrived."
The brothers and their brides have been inseparable ever since. Their homes and businesses are side by side, the laundrette and a grocery store linked by CCTV. Sons, daughters and grandchildren come back at weekends for family meals. Here, then, is an extended Asian family looking after each other's interests. Can we still regard it as typical?
The brothers and their brides have been inseparable ever since. Their homes and businesses are side by side, the laundrette and a grocery store linked by CCTV. Sons, daughters and grandchildren come back at weekends for family meals. Here, then, is an extended Asian family looking after each other's interests. Can we still regard it as typical?
