‘Landline answer- wallah’ became our code word for über privilege. She said there was one person whose only job seemed to be to answer the landline. I was reminded of a friend visiting a very wealthy business family in Kolkata. He wanders from room to room and still never runs into a soul. Later, the lover leaves the teen asleep in bed and tries to break into the safe. They would have to step over a couple of people sleeping in the living room. Someone or the other would have woken up to open the front door. In a Delhi home of this kind, there would be 24x7 security guards. In Spain, it’s believable that even the wealthy have few full-time staff. That’s the issue with remakes, said my partner who binges on all kinds of OTT series. The home is palatial but there seems to be hardly any staff. What’s utterly astonishing is that nobody sees them. Column | Going down the rabbit hole of funeral and housewarming videos from Kerala - they are a rage online
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