Home For The Hallidays

<p>Webster's dictionary defines a cliche as something that has become overly familiar or commonplace. Every year a few new ones get minted due to something capturing the public interest and dominating conversations. 2020 was no exception. It'spawned a bunch like Pandemic New normal Lockdown or Sir your video is on please put on some pants. While 2020 is likely to be remembered only as a year of the pandemic we witnessed so much more than just Corona.</p><p>Home for the Hallidays is a collection of humour essays that captures just that from Deepak Sridhar's eyes. It's a bumpy Bangalore auto ride through the zeitgeist of 2020: Encounter killings that have better plots than Race 2 Donald Trump and the horses of Philadelphia IPL matches with no crowds breaking a fixed deposit to buy petrol and much more. And much like his conversations with a bartender after 4 drinks Deepak's essays don't shy away from getting deeply personal.</p><p>With his trademark Bangalore bar uncle' perspective Sridhar wrIt's essays that capture the different absurdities that urban Indians witnessed each week as we moved from non stop lockdowns to un-ironically saying Unlock 7.0'. He relies on everything from Bollywood references to his investing diaper money in cryptocurrency to satirise the crazy year we lived through.</p><p>Sit back pour yourself a large old monk crack this book open and in the words of the late great satirist Chaucer: Enjoy Maadi.</p>