Man with world's biggest family

A man in Mizoram, India, has 39 wives, 94 children and 33 grandchildren - all living together under one roof in a picturesque village about 100 km from Baktawng in the north of the state.

The head of the family and leader of the "Chana" religious sect - which allows polygamy - is 66-year-old Ziona Chana who lives with his family in a 100-room, four-storey house named Chhuanthar Run (House of the New Generation).

Though all of Ziona's family members live in different rooms in the building, they all share the kitchen where they cook for the entire family.

Ziona Channa posing with his 39 wives

The family is organised with almost military discipline, with the oldest wife Zathiangi organising her fellow partners to perform household chores such as cleaning, washing and preparing meals.

An evening meal can see them pluck 30 chickens, peel 59.8kg of potatoes and boil up to 99.7kg of rice.

Ziona even married ten women in one year, when he was at his most prolific, and enjoys his own double bed while his wives have to do with communal dormitories.

He keeps the youngest women near to his bedroom with the older members of the family sleeping further away and there is a rotation system for who visits Ziona’s bedroom.

Under one roof...Ziona Channa's family mansion

He said he felt blessed to have so many of his brood living with him. "Today I feel like God's special child. He's given me so many people to look after."

"I consider myself a lucky man to be the husband of 39 women and head of the largest family."

All the men of the family work as carpenters and Ziona says proudly: "We don't want any help from the government."

Rinkmini, one of Ziona’s wives, said, "We stay around him as he is the most important person in the house. He is the most handsome person in the village."

Meet the family....Ziona with his 39 wives, 94 children and 33 grandchildren

She said Ziona noticed her on a morning walk in the village 18 years ago and wrote her a letter asking for her hand in marriage.

Another of his wives, Huntharnghanki, said the entire family gets along well. The family system is reportedly based on "mutual love and respect".

Ziona, whose sect has 4,00 members, says he has not stopped looking for new wives.

"To expand my sect, I am willing to go even to the US to marry," he said.

One of his sons insisted that Ziona, whose grandfather also had many wives, married the poor women from the village so he could look after them.
Source: Agencies
Published Feb 21 2011 (http://dailychilli.com/news/9805-man-with-worlds-biggest-family)

notes: why do I post it on my blog? because its tremendeous! hilliriating! super shocking. still cant emagine he's still on haunt! well, goodluck then.