General conversations and community discussions.
Our home phone in Hyderabad was a grey push button set on a table by the door, with a lace cover. I can still say that number without…
Every 2 months or so I get the urge and the living room has to change. It's been going on 4 years. Our flat in Riyadh is not big. The sofa…
I just checked my gallery and I have 2,861 screenshots. I don't remember taking most of them. Last night in bed I tried to delete the…
In my engineering days I was proud of sleeping 4 hours. I used to say it out loud. We had a hostel room with 3 beds in Kothapet and a…
Every evening around 8 my father calls and says the internet is gone. Every single evening. He lives 2 hours away in a small house with a…
Saturday evening I came back from the market with 6 bags. 10 kg of rice, vegetables, a melon. My arms were going numb by the time I reached…
There's a tea stall at the end of our road, just a cart with a tin roof and an old man running it. I walk up and he's already pouring. Less…
A friend is flying in from Jaipur next month for 4 days. She's never eaten properly in Hyderabad. I've been making a list on my phone for a…
There's a brown dog in our lane that sleeps right in the middle of the road. 2pm, full sun. Auto drivers honk, school kids step over him, a…
I've tried saving money maybe 5 times in my life. Every attempt lasted about 6 weeks. The plan was always the same. Transfer whatever's…