Nothing prepares you for that moment when Amma is in the ICU and Appa is at home with his knee acting up, and you are the only one the doctor can call. Last year, while I was juggling those coffee-stained GST entries, my neighbour’s daughter flew back from Hyderabad overnight because her mother fell — and she had no one to tag-team the hospital shifts. Here in Telangana, we say ‘oka chota kutumbam’ (small family) is the modern way, but when the night nurse hands you the bill and you’ve no sibling to split the worry or the wait, that number on the paper hits different. It is not just money, chaala — it is the sheer arithmetic of being one body in two places at once.
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