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The Curious incident of the dog in the morning!

Early in the morning today, at about   4:30 am , I could hear noises- I woke up wondering if somebody had entered the house or if the noises were from outside. Living downstairs is a whole new experience in itself- all the sounds of the neighboring houses, the trees and the birds, the  dogs , the cats, the cabs that come to drop people late in the night, the people who come home late after a late dinner or a party – everything is known to us. It is pretty darn annoying at first – especially when you don’t know that the kids in the neighboring house have a habit of creating a ruckus only post  11pm  and not one minute before that. For the first two days, I would respond in shock to the sudden shrills that could be heard from their house, I would wonder what the parents were doing to them to make them revolt so violently. When it continued to happen on the third day, I realized it was a pattern, and now it has become the new normal. Being a light sleeper does not help when there so

Travel diaries- Hyderabad to Bengaluru!

They say if there’s an innocent amongst a hundred criminals, the law of the universe is to save the hundred rather than punish one innocent. Surely there was one such innocent on the bus I took back home. The fates of hundreds intertwined, we travel as a single unit in a bus from Hyderabad to Bangalore. The fate of the bus is the fate of all of us, and my strong belief is that the fate of all of us is indeed the fate of the bus. Context: I’m traveling from Hyderabad to Bengaluru by Orange travels. 2:45am: I wake up to see two women standing at the driver’s seat, and a man checking some diesel pipes in the bus. Me: What’s up? The woman standing: We have a diesel leak in the bus- they’re figuring if it is fixable. 2:50am:  Technical guy who analysed the issue- It is just a pipe problem, fixable in ten minutes, but we don’t have the necessary material to fix it. Orange Bus customer care: Please fix it using an alternate material available. By then frantic pa