Circa: Late 2003. My (office colleagues professing to be) friends and (on her way to becoming) my girlfriend convinced me that it was time I got a mobile phone 'of my own'. A couple of months back I had moved to Bangalore to take up a position with an MNC. Calls were being made a couple of times a week to my concerned parents and sisters back in Delhi and occasionally to friends (concerned about my mating options). My 'social circle' at the time was limited. 6 degrees of separation was still a movie and Facebook was still being beta tested within the precincts of Harvard. And LinkedIn was going through labor pain. Kids this generation will not understand this. But to spend Rs. 5000 on self seemed criminal. I remember calculating that I could use that money to make calls to Delhi from the local phone booth for almost a year. And so, I tried to defer the purchase decision - unsuccessfully. One of the evenings, an office ...
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