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Kitchu and Vitchu were friends from very young. Or perhaps they weren’t. They didn’t really play together as children, or even know each other’s families. But the familiarity of the situation and the shared memories of afternoons, festivals and grandmothers provided a strange sense of kinship. They met as equals. Both of them retired. Both [...]
Posted on October 27th, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
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Words: Glass, freeriding, Mumbai, separation
This was the curse of IT firms. They had offices in Bangalore. And many of those who worked in the glass-kissed buildings were from places like Mumbai and Delhi. The ones from Madras were alright. They had a right to be in Bangalore. But the others annoyed him. The girl on [...]
Posted on October 24th, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
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Words: Conduction, Convection, Constipation, Show-off, renaissance, propellor, credit-crunch
Janardhan Ramalingam was a very polished man. Even if his name had been truncated to an ultra-feminine Jan, one look at him, and you would think he was born with a suit. Every Friday night, Janardhan goes out drinking with his colleagues. Like any other good show-off, he [...]
Posted on October 23rd, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
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