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A series by Amish Kapadia

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Last verified: May 2026

Short observations from Mumbai. The small strange details of Indian life that don't translate, but make sense the second you see them.

N° 01 · Street theatre

We are crossing. Traffic must adjust.

An old man crosses Marine Drive on a green light. Nobody honks. Then the herd. Then the insight — this is game theory in action, and it shouldn't work, but it does.

N° 02 · The everyday

The guilty pleasure nobody talks about.

On the bais, drivers, and live-in staff who run middle-class Indian homes. The NRI guilt, the real economic circuit flowing back to UP and Bihar, and the moment you stop making your own chai.

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