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Meet Kavya, a 28-year-old coder who spends 14 hours a day on screens. At dawn, she joins a group of retired colonels, pregnant women, and college dropouts in Cubbon Park. No phones. No AirPods. For one hour, they talk—about chai recipes, their dead parents, the monsoon. Then, at exactly 6:00 AM, a 70-year-old man plays a bhupali raga on his bamboo flute. Everyone stops. The sound floats over the sleeping tech parks. Kavya confesses: “In my world of infinite scrolls, this one hour of enforced boredom is my only luxury.” The feature is how ancient rhythms—pre-dawn walks, shared silence, live music—are becoming the new status symbol for the exhausted, hyper-connected Indian.
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