The first thing I think of when I open my eyes is switching off the AC. It's been running all night, quietly eating into a bill I'll dread at the end of the month. We have air conditioners in every room of our home — for comfort, for the upgraded lifestyle we've earned, to keep pace with the social strata we now belong to, and because Delhi's heat leaves us no real choice. We run them so that after a punishing day, we can steal five or six hours of sane sleep. I started writing this after seeing a quote on Instagram, loosely attributed to Ramachandra Guha — I can't verify the source, so take the attribution with caution. But it stayed with me, because it captures something true: life has become harder to simply survive in the last ten years, even for those of us who are supposedly winning at it. The Win That Doesn't Feel Like One I have a graduate and a master's degree from top universities in India. Nine years of work experience. I live in Delhi with my fa...
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