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A Short Account of my Encounters in Smoking Rooms, mostly in Airports & Pubs

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Confessions in a Cloud – Smoking Room Chronicles at Mumbai Airport

Airports are curious places, aren’t they? You’re simultaneously in transit and nowhere at all, caught between here and there with nothing but time to kill.

January 12, 2025March 29, 2025
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The Smoking Room Stories

The Pub Confessions – Smoke, Stares, and Scuffles at Velvet Mirage

Every night at Velvet Mirage has its rituals, and for me, the smoking room was as much a part of the evening as the whiskey

January 12, 2025March 29, 2025
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The Pub Confessions – Smoke, Strangers, and Stares

It was another typical Saturday night at The Rising Pint. The band was playing a questionable rendition of Sweet Child O’ Mine, the crowd was

January 12, 2025March 29, 2025
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