My family background and childhood

I was born into a school teacher's family (Shri Gabbita Durga Prasad)and my father took lot of interest in my education though he was frequently transferred from one place to one place within Krishna District of Andhra Pradesh (India). My mother Prabhavathi is a housewife. We are four brothers and one sister and I am the eldest of them. There is a saying in Telugu meaning that the eldest son is supposed to uproot the house. All through my childhood and youth days I used to crack this joke. However I did not do anything to the house ultimately. After his retirement my father only dismantled the inherited house and built a pucca concrete house. Our home during our child was a tiled one. Though my father was a teacher we used to depend on agriculture to quite an extent. The family lands were inherited and my father is the custodian of the joint property. As my father's elder brother died at his early married life leaving his wife, one daughter and daughter, our family used to be a big family.