Saskanth Goteti

Being up on the fourth floor of Tower 6 in Happy Hames is quite different from what I was used to before. Mehdipatnam is always buzzing with traffic and people, especially with the Ring Road right there, but once the elevator takes me up to 408, things quiet down a bit. You can still hear the distant hum of the vehicles, but it becomes more like background noise. The apartment serves as my workspace and my home, so the line between work and life gets a bit blurry sometimes. I have my computer set up near the balcony door so I can get a bit of fresh air, though in Hyderabad, "fresh" air is a bit of a stretch during the summer months. The tower itself is pretty standard, with a lot of families living on every floor. We see the same faces in the lift every day. I don’t have a big staff or anything like that; it’s mostly just me handling the day-to-day things. The desk is usually covered in folders and half-empty water bottles. I’ve lived in different parts of the city, but being here near the Ring Road makes it easy to get around when I actually have to leave the house. It’s a practical setup for what I do, even if the building management gets a bit annoying about the parking spaces sometimes. My internet router blinks constantly, which is my main companion during late-night work sessions.