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yours?” Nishant is the one who has made all the rules for our home. And
therefore Raj doesn’t let go of a chance to reprimand him whenever he can. By
now Raj is already stationed outside Nishant’s room, enjoying the show. Though
Raj isn’t any different from Nishant, after all he is the self‐appointed discipline
enforcer of the V‐B‐S‐K home. When he is not around we refer to him as the
‘watchman.’ Nishant makes the rules, he makes sure we follow them.
“Fuck it’s mine.” Nishant says with a sheepish grin, feeling a little silly. A
million‐dollar moment, I bet Raj must think.
“Okay, two dollars then,” Shetty walks away leaving the spoon on
Nishant’s worktable. Nishant is the one who drafted the exhaustive VBSK
manifesto. The manifesto, as Raj jokes, had been “born out of a need for the
smooth functioning of the activities carried out by its members (such as the
timely payment of rent) and also to safeguard the right to privacy of the
household members.” We were four guys living in a three and a half bedroom
apartment, tired of sharing the phone, bathroom, dinners. Tired of seeing each
other’s stuff lying in the living room, of shoes left abandoned in the hallway, of
finding the water pitcher unfilled in the fridge.
So the weekend of Thanksgiving, precisely November 27, Friday we
created a manifesto. And then spent two days – almost the entire weekend – in
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