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👋 fortnightly | Running one of Bangalore's largest BookClubs📚- @BibliophilesBlr

https://t.co/cGtUeqGq6F

Joined November 2009

Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.

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2 months

This is blowing up 🤔 This was about soft skills at work. If you want to learn better Python and improve technical skills at work, follow my newsletter 😌

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2 years

If you recognize this, your childhood was awesome.

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. @PrimeVideo 's trying to move from a "999/- and you can watch everything!" to a "1st episode free,but then you gotta pay/channel" model and they think we'll just suck it up and pay coz we're hooked, but it'll fail so fast, they'll realise it's not just their Search that sucks.

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3 years

The existence of a Dev Patel implies the existence somewhere of a QA Patel.

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2 years

Bangalore is more than meetups and startups. 😌 It's idlyvademasaladosesetdosekharabathkesaribathpooribisibelebathshavigebath. It's a long walk on a cool day in lalbagh and that's everyday. It's sights of old ppl chatting loudly in Kannada drinking hot filter coffees.

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3 years

Dating app for Indian chefs : Hing

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3 years

They said "Go out of your comfort zone". So I went to Whitefield.

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4 years

@ariannareiche @perfumegenius @jackdwagner And of course, the less crush-y but definitely existent Senior Citizen Tiktok house.

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2 years

To all EV manufacturers - You are risking Multiple lives when you push your half-baked products on the street . At some point, one of these incidents will become a criminal offense, if it isn’t already. Please invest in Exhaustive QA. Your rush-to-market isn’t worth this.

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Another one...Its spreading like a wild #Fire . After #Ola & #okinawa #electric scooter from #PureEV catches fire in Chennai. Thats the 4th incident in 4 days.. The heat is on. #ElectricVehicles #OLAFIRE #lithium

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2 years

I named my powerbank Mitochondria coz it's the powerhouse of my cell.

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3 years

Bangalore could use these stickers. With some localized language ofc .- "Bus eno neenu!? Hogo aa kaDe 🤡" @peakbengaluru

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I see my mother is now writing copy for the MTA….

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3 years

A Product Manager's favorite vegetable is Bhindi coz it meets and exceeds its OKR by A bit.

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2 years

Work is only a small part of your life. Don't make it your identity.

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2 years

What is that people of age 30+ know that’s really hard to teach to people in their 20s or teens?

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4 years

Bhel curve

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2 months

Today i met an elderly gentleman named Mr Chandrashekhar who runs a library near Ragigudda, Jayanagar and has been for the last 40+ years. I just happened to visit the library in passing but I had the best time chatting with him for ~an hour. It was one of the wholesome

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7 months

My friend asked the Murugan cafe guy if @JontyRhodes8 came here and he said many people come here everyday 😂 Swaaag 🔥

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11 months

Made a smol website for our driver in Ubud, Bali He was one of the nicest guys we met there. If you're in the area and are looking for a reliable driver, Kadek Pao is your man! I want to improve SEO on this, so I'd love some pointers if you have them.

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3 years

😪When this is all over....I'm going to eat in every idly joint in the city, sit and read in libraries and parks for hours and hours and just ...be. And yes, I welcome company 🤝😌

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3 years

My grandma lives on the floor above mine and today's her birthday. So I went up, knocked on the door, gave her a big hug when she opened it and wished her 🤗 She grinned, then frowned and told me to gtfo and come back at a sane hour in the morning😔 Happy birthday paati ❤️

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2 months

Nowadays I don't respond if someone at work sends me a "Hi" and just waits for me to get back. Tell me the whole content and let me estimate the time needed to honor the ask upfront. Life is too short to play chat ping pong.

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4 years

Someday it'll be safe to travel again and I'll buy a brinjal, plan a trip via train and book 2 Sleeper Class tickets. One for me & one for the brinjal. When ppl ask me if the seat with the brinjal is taken, I'll give them a cold stare and say - "That is Baingan ka Berthaa" 😒🚉

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3 years

Enter Virtual Payment Address Verified. Approve from banking app. - UPI Kaur

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1 year

I was today years old when I learnt Decathlon isn't an Indian brand. For everyone who is as mindblown as I am, it's French.

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Why is there no Indian competitor to Decathlon? Is there an opportunity?

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1 year

Adyar Anand Bhavan's abbreviation should be Adyar A/B . Where they run tests by serving awesome food in some branches and ABysmal food in other branches and gauge loyalty.

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5 years

How do colors laugh? Huehuehue 😂

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4 years

Where do Star Wars fans hang out in Bangalore? Jedimara bus stop. #Bangalore @WeAreBangalore 😌

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3 years

@mister_whistler Companies are not particularly known for their understanding natures when a candidate says "I need a few more days before I can join.". So they feel they have to lie. The fact that they're not imaginative enough in their lies is something to fault though.

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5 years

Who called it a train ticket and not a berth certificate?

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2 years

I don't think people realize the amount of work these sort of one-person videos take 😀 To capture three sets of dialogues in three different attires, trim them to timing perfection and put them together. 👏 All you see is the comedic brilliance when it lands.

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3 years

You didn’t win anything? And the full video is here :

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3 years

Who called it Sardar vallabhbhai patel ground and not Iron Maidan?

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3 years

What's a South Indian atheist's favorite movie? Gods illa.

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3 years

Got curious about which Chips shops names dominate the #Bangalore scene and decided to do a small dataScrape+ #dataviz experiment. More stats will follow when I'm a little less sleepy, but my hunch has been proved right. "SAI RAM" is the most popular chips shop name 😂

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1 year

Such well dressed people. Expensive haircuts. Airpods. All that money. But you can't buy manners and self-control.

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#AirRage Video of a fight between pax that broke out on @ThaiSmileAirway flight Reportedly on a Bangkok-India flight of Dec 27

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3 years

"Had lunch?" is a feeling. "Oota aitha?" is an emotion 😌

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2 years

Tbt when I'd gone to my dentist for a session & told him today was my birthday and he said "Did you know another awesome person was born today?" I said "Yuss😎 Rajinikanth". He said, a little crestfallen, "No😒 Me." There was an awkward silence. But happy birthday to my dentist.

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I remember growing up with Rishi and we used to play in the playground. He would look up in the sky with dreamy eyes and say "I'm going to become the PM of Britain" and even though my friend's last name was Patel, today a Rishi is going to be the PM of Britain. - LinkedIn, soon.

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3 years

Please don't order food from zomato or swiggy when it's visibly pouring if you can cook at home.

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I was really amazed to see this man trying to deliver food on time even with a terrified heavy rainfall. People who are driving cars were struggling to drive but this man has such a dedication, hats off, hope @zomato recognise these type of people and give some rewards.

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3 years

How old are you in Bangalore years without telling us your age? 😊

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Peter Griffin isn’t spending much time here

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How old are you in Bombay years without telling us your age?

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1 year

Public : "Please don't come. It's going to get really problematic for us if you do it for a full day" Him : "Ok I will cause problem for 2 days" 🤡

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4 years

I initially thought substack was full stack developer in hindi.

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3 years

Tamilians don't have leg Day. We have thigh maasam. 😌

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2 years

It's a conductor yelling "Holden! " on a bus from one end to a driver at the other end of it. It's the hustle & bustle of Ulsoor market and commercial street. It might be clichéd to call Bangalore an emotion. But it is.

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3 years

@SandalBurn I go to SN refreshments. Buy 1 plate hot idly with benne. The benne is crucial. He asks Chutney? I say Chutney. Then I ask for one cup sambar separate. I stand at a table and look at the chaat shop across the road & I think I'll buy chaat after this. What was the question? 🤔

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2 years

The existence of devops implies the existence of asurops.

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3 years

Recently my friend from Chennai who had moved to Bangalore and had rented the ground floor of a 2 floor 2 BHK called me up and said - "Dei I just had a conversation with my landlord. We had a good chat but the last thing he said was 'Enjoy maadi'". I'm on the ground floor da 🤔

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2 years

Today @BibliophilesBlr celebrated its 5th year anniversary ♥ Thank you all for coming 😍 Thank you everyone who made it possible for five years of existence. And thank you @thebookworm_blr for hosting us :) See you all in March! Here's to Year 6!

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1 year

The good thing about Bangalore roads being so abysmal in their condition is that the medicines you bring home from the pharmacy are Already shaken very well before use. Thank you BBMP 😊

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3 years

@sourcesvs @verge Verge document

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1 year

If you're not waking up, plunging into a cold bath, staring directly at sunlight, shoveling Athletic Greens in your mouth and then running for 3 miles flat before hours of deep work, taking long walks mulling over stoic philosophies and sleeping at 7 pm, you're wasting your life.

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1 year

The epic show featuring 4 grown-up children with no jobs for four full seasons waiting for their father to die and give them a job that none of them can actually do is coming back for its final season and I cannot wait.

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2 years

In Bangalore, we call them citizens.

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3 years

What the most important things in life to me would be, if I was a tailor - 👇🏻 Thread 🧵

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2 months

He seemed genuinely interested & overall it became very little about a customer and a librarian and just two ppl having a nice conversation about books and people and life in general. He's even published a smol book of his own that I bought🥰 If you're in the area, pls visit.

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4 years

@venkattcv @therealjpk Look at that production quality ♥ 😂 what painstaking efforts.

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6 years

@iamdevloper Updated README.

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3 years

Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick 😌

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1 year

Glorify not working hard. Anyone who's praised working hard on weekends hasn't had the pleasure of enjoying a relaxed weekend. If you want to keep working hard, fine. Just don't be surprised if you see someone just living life and being happy while not working hard.

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2 years

@Saranyagop 😂 Some kid on their marketing team is a batman fan

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3 years

@aryxnsharma @kunalb11 I don't want a personal incentive for paying my taxes. I want what was promised. Good infra, good governance and honest politicians. Now, I didn't get my Hogwarts letter 20 years ago. But maybe this piece of fiction will become reality someday.

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3 years

The most important meal of the day before working out of office for today - for the first time in 545 days.

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2 years

Saw an extremely.. well mannered.. guy brazenly cut the line at Bengaluru Cafe. But then he turned around after placing his order loudly and I saw he was wearing a "Being Human" tee, and it all made sense 😊

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3 years

#Bengaluru Cafe in Jayanagar is everything Veena Stores used to be. The best benne, the amazing pudina chutney and the hot, perfect idlys.

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6 months

Sat opposite an elderly gentleman eating a similar plate of idli to mine today and he was just chilling, watching a video, smiling to himself and relishing that plate. It was like looking into a mirror that reflected my hopeful future.

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2 years

Newly arranged married guys putting up captions like : "Finally I have a reason to smile😍" Meanwhile parents :

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3 years

"One definition of maturity is lengthening the gap between impulse and action" - Daniel Goleman

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11 months

Friday night is party night

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2 years

@__mharrison__ How using dir() can absolutely prevent the need for googling that much more about an object's features/ possible methods. Can you append to a list? Well let's find out - Why yesss

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3 years

. @airtelindia Ditch the "davai bhi 'kadai' bhi"/whatever ad. "TRUST the vaccine made in India" bit is old & more importantly Intrusive. If people are trying to call ambulances or for resources & they have to listen to this for 30-40 seconds, that is time Lost. You are culpable.

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1 month

Also budget Aurora in JP Nagar 😌

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Couldn't see northern lights? No problem. Bangalore has you covered. The lighting at this place is way more dynamic than any aurora borealis ever...

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1 year

Yes yes. 1499. Cached value 🤣

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2 months

Bookworm is the best bookstore in Bangalore ♥

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Bookworm Bookstore, Blr

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Happy WORLD BOOK DAY to all readers! To celebrate this special day, we're giving every visitor to our bookstore a gift! No purchase required. Drop in and pick up a surprise book! Kindly RT. #worldbookday #reading #books #supportindies

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2 years

@beastoftraal The job profile is sometimes a dead giveaway. "Social media __" - Alright bye.

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2 years

Who called them ghar jamai and not homeopathi?

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3 years

Where's the best cheesecake you've eaten in #Bangalore ? Which flavor? RT pls. I want opinions from the city :D

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5 years

The rush of happiness you feel when you eat a crisp dosa is due to the chemical called dosamine.

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2 years

You don't need a "trick" for wordle. Just..have..fun .

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2 years

And it is also a prompt for a post I'll write instead of a thread that can go a lot longer.

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2 years

Back home - at @bookworm_Kris . Btw Roopa Pai's book on Cubbon Park is shaping up to be an excellent read 🔥

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4 years

"Let's take this offline" is the professional version of "tu baahar mil dikhata hun".

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1 year

Lovely to see that a search for "book clubs in bangalore" shows images for @BibliophilesBlr as 2 of the top 4 images. With 0 SEO. In Feb, we completed 6 years of existence & consistent meetups. Couldn't have done it w/o @bookworm_Kris , @AttaGalatta & the readers of Bangalore ♥️🥳

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2 years

"Let's take this offline" is the sophisticated form of 'Tu bahar mil"

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1 year

My mum told me she spent all of yesterday reading my blog posts and stories and pointed out some quirks and common tones in some of the posts. Frankly, I can’t think of a better incentive to continue writing with renewed vigour ❤️

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3 years

Got promoted twice.

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3 years

Taught a class at RVCE after a loong time today. The online lectures don't quite have the same feeling as being able to see the students and read off of their reactions 😅 Still managed to have a nice interactive session 😁

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4 years

Happy first birthday @ChampacaBooks 😊🎂🎉 I remember posts from @gonsalves_r and @vinaysshenoy about how you ppl were stocking books with excitement (or maybe that was the video on 2x 🤔). I also loved the @BibliophilesBlr meetup we hosted there 🤗 Here's to many more birthdays!

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3 years

@nah_im_abdulla "He was also Customer like You" Lmaoooo

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3 years

I can only register 4 people on 1 phone and I registered my 4 family members on my phone so to register myself I will buy new phone number thanks gormint

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2 years

Had a great @BibliophilesBlr meetup today! Thanks to everyone who came - @ankurs3thi @hashfyre @lampooner @DVijaykeerthy @_dforce and everyone else :) Special thanks to @bookworm_Kris , Preetham , Shashi and to Shanthakka for the space & awesome coffee as always! :)

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2 years

The previous one made even me a little dizzy, so I increased the frame rate a little. To celebrate #NewYearsEve I decided to GIF all my #Idly Experiences of 2021. 😌

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4 years

I'm making a joke about developers. It'll be ready by EOD.

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4 years

I have a joke on Product Managers. It’s in the backlog.

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4 years

@romefrontend @sebmck I'm guessing it wasn't built in a day 🤔

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5 years

@HackingThings There's no point being "approximately" right while unlocking a phone. But enh. Not really going for a decrypting award here 😂 012038685848758592002855317383396620212347381486245678912347848624567891231597530852147896323135736391213151914173141592535897932384626423383279.

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3 years

Thanks to @bookworm_Kris and Preetham and the entire Bookworm team for a lovely birthday gift and to my frens for a lovely day 🤗

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2 years

Participated in a company hackathon after half a decade, regretted enrolling in it midway through the process, got all enthu on the last day and finally ended up winning the Jury's favorite award. Roller coaster of a week but damn it feels good 😅🎉

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2 years

Chellon, first you give us proper streets ✋😐

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8 months

It was a crisp Sunday morning when 21 of us assembled at HVR Veg, Sheshadripuram. The Thindi Walk had begun. The overall company included some super thindipothas - @surajv369 @megramachandra Sukant @AdityaPahilwani @dptejas20 @dharmeshba @DVijaykeerthy @krznun @atiiiiisundari

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2 years

@sallyrooneyscat Thanks for the tag @GayathriSrinath :D Hi Prek, this is what we do at @BibliophilesBlr :) Except instead of selecting one book, we talk about whatever we've read and everyone gets chances to speak. In fact we had our #53rd meetup just today! You're most welcome :)

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3 years

Woke up to bunch of people requesting to join the @BibliophilesBlr Facebook group and all saying they found us in the newspaper 😁 Then I see this. Thanks for the feature @FarheenKHussain !

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3 years

Normally I eat idli but if I want to party, I eat rave idli

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4 years

Guided Meditation in 2020

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Abhiram R

4 years

To my mutuals who don't care about @pyconindia , thank you for putting up with my Tweet storm over the last 48 hours. This was/is/will be a very special event for me 🥳 I owe my current professional & personal satisfaction to #python & its community. I'm glad to be a part of it😊

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