How does the story reflect the Indian cultural values of respect for parents, in-laws and close-knit communities. Give your views in about 150-200 words.

The story reflects the Indian cultural values of respect for parents, in-laws and close-knit communities. The title of the story refers to Rakesh, who is always reverential to his parents, touching their feet in devotion. People can hardly believe that a man born to illiterate parents could rise to such heights of glory and yet remain devoted to them. Rakesh lived up to his mother’s expectation. She was quite fortunate that her famous doctor-son rubbed her feet during her last days. His mother died soon after, giving up the ghost with a sigh that sounded positively happy, for it was her own son who ministered to her in her last illness and who sat pressing her feet at the last moment, such a son as few women had borne. Rakesh’s mother gloated chiefly over the strange fact that he had not married in America, had not brought home a foreign wife as all her neighbours had warned her he would. She had always feared this. Instead he agreed, almost without argument, to marry a girl she had picked out for him in her own village.