V shared a YouTube livestream of a BDA meeting on our group. A strangely humanising experience to watch these people get annoyed, joke, shout and turn heads in unison as the leader of the meeting makes remarks. I usually only encounter these specific type of government officers at banks or offices or while I am making the case that to get my passbook address updated I must update my Aadhar but to update Aadhar I need bank address updated but to update bank address…(you get it). I watch the proceedings from my home and for once there is no anxiety and I can observe that they are generally annoyed in most cases, and it is not because of me. There are stacks of paper that are sometimes half a foot high, people taking notes, some who are nervous some who are impatient, the main man is signing things left and right, switching between laughs and furrowed brows within seconds; it is a drama. I don’t understand half of it because it is in Kannada but the vibes are enough to sustain my interest.

The projector is an overkill, of course. Some dramatic arguments in the background as I make fried rice.