In Indian homes today, parenting is often caught between the scaffolding of tradition and the chaos of modernity. Many parents, raised in conservative, compliance-oriented households, are now trying - and often failing - to raise children in a hyper-liberal, emotionally nuanced world they barely comprehend. Emotional unavailability is cloaked in financial provision; love is outsourced to tuition centres and tablets; and discipline is either excessively authoritarian or absent altogether.