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A scratchy throat at midnight sent me down a WebMD rabbit hole. By 3 a.m. I was reading about how Sumerian priests tracked the rising of Venus. My throat turned out to be fine. My sleep schedule did not.
An unfiltered personal memoir from Mumbai: Flying 1,200 Miles with Fresh Lilies Only to See Her Having Coffee with Her Gym Coach. From calculated overconfidence to complete public collapse, read how one decision escalated into pure desi chaos.
An unfiltered personal memoir from Delhi: Cooking Midnight Maggi in Hostel 4 and Blowing Out the Power Grid for 600 Students. From calculated overconfidence to complete public collapse, read how one decision escalated into pure desi chaos.
I told my manager I had an offer from Google Dublin. I didn't. What followed was a slow, very public unravelling of that lie — and the honest appraisal conversation I should have had in the first place.
An unfiltered personal memoir from Lahore: Explaining Microservices Using Season 3 Plotlines with Complete Theatrical Confidence. From calculated overconfidence to complete public collapse, read how one decision escalated into pure desi chaos.
Every dawat in our family runs on an unspoken rule: whoever reaches the mutton first eats like a king. I decided to change the odds by hiding two ladles of the good boti behind the frozen peas. My chachi found it looking for ice.
An unfiltered personal memoir from Lahore: Exposing My Sister's Suitor with a Real-Time LinkedIn Search During the Tea Dawat. From calculated overconfidence to complete public collapse, read how one decision escalated into pure desi chaos.
An unfiltered personal memoir from Hyderabad: Cooking Midnight Maggi in Hostel 4 and Blowing Out the Power Grid for 600 Students. From calculated overconfidence to complete public collapse, read how one decision escalated into pure desi chaos.
An unfiltered personal memoir from Hyderabad: Cooking Midnight Maggi in Hostel 4 and Blowing Out the Power Grid for 600 Students. From calculated overconfidence to complete public collapse, read how one decision escalated into pure desi chaos.
An unfiltered personal memoir from Bangalore: Claiming Classical Sitar and Organic Gardening to a Conservative Father-in-Law. From calculated overconfidence to complete public collapse, read how one decision escalated into pure desi chaos.
An unfiltered personal memoir from Lahore: Avoiding Chacha's Chai Tab by Wearing a Medical Mask and Sunglasses on Campus. From calculated overconfidence to complete public collapse, read how one decision escalated into pure desi chaos.
An unfiltered personal memoir from Bangalore: Diluting the Flatmate's Stolen Dairy with Surgical Saline for Four Weeks. From calculated overconfidence to complete public collapse, read how one decision escalated into pure desi chaos.
