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Homecoming

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If you are someone living away from your home, you might be familiar with this feeling. You yearn to go home and only once you reach, you realize you don’t miss home but the feeling (vo “ghar vaali feeling”). The month of July was all about this feeling - Ghar se Dur, par Feeling ke Kareeb! I feel one of the major signs of adulting is realizing that “Ghar” isn’t a physical entity. You get the feeling when you are around your coterie; having your comfort food; visiting those places where you spent your childhood.  The whole month I did things that either reminded me of Home – Shopping from Army Canteen; or felt like home - working from office feels like working from home! All thanks to the wonderful people I work with - Bangalore has started to feel like home. Minimalism For all those who have been living far from their home in a city that’s new to them, we hardly make an effort to seek permanence there. We live in makeshift homes that we will apparently leave when a better opportun...