At the exact same moment, 1,200 kilometers south in a high-rise apartment in Bengaluru, 34-year-old software architect Priya Menon silences her iPhone (sleep score: 85) and scrolls through 47 WhatsApp messages. Six are from her mother’s group, eleven from her apartment’s resident welfare association, and three from a cousin asking for a loan confirmation.
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The final act of the Indian family day is loneliness in proximity. Everyone is in the same living room. But the son is playing BGMI (Battlegrounds Mobile India) with a friend in Canada. The daughter is on a Discord server. The parents are watching a rerun of Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah on a tablet. At the exact same moment, 1,200 kilometers south