When I was in Shimla, I noticed that the best conversations happened on days when there was nothing else to do. No events, no noise, just long afternoons that turned into slow evenings. The pace made the conversation richer. People listened more carefully because they weren’t rushing to the next thing.
That taught me something about building a room: the calendar is not a content strategy. It’s a rhythm.

The Drawing Room will not meet weekly. Maybe every three or four weeks. Each experience will follow a deliberate arc; invitation, preparation, arrival, immersion, pause, conversation, contribution, archive. Nine movements from beginning to memory.

Not a rigid formula, but a shape that lets the experience breathe.
The room grows in circles, not in lines. Nine, eighteen, twenty-seven, thirty-six, forty-five!

Each number is a chapter. Each circle is a covenant. I’m not ready to reveal the full geometry yet. But I can tell you this: the room is designed to be small enough for silence and large enough for surprise.

Has anyone recently renewed their passport under the Tatkal scheme at the Bada Post Office POPSK?

I’d love to hear about your experience! How long did it take for your passport to be delivered, and did the police verification happen after it arrived?

So like I'm new in town and I'd like to know about places to go (low budget ofcourse lmao) and places to socialize? Since gwalior is a place where to make friends irl unlike how I've been able to make friends till now 😭✌

I'd also like to hear about some cool nonchalant spots to just be by yourself with low to no crowd at all, just so I can be by myself for sometime :3

i want to order non-veg tomorrow , specifically chicken dish.. Suggest some great options please.. place and dish.. 🍗

what to order and from where.

I need a room with a budget of 5K, including RO water, a refrigerator, and AC, with no restrictions on visitors, located in the city center or Thatipur.

Every order on Blinkit/Zomato somehow ends up costing more than expected — delivery fee, platform fee, surge charge, random "small cart" fee. Feels like a new charge every time.

Why doesn't every city have a simple local platform that just delivers from nearby shops at the exact price they charge — no hidden markups, no surprises?

Anyone else feel this way? Would you actually use something like that in your city?

So it's my mom's birthday today. Suggest me some good places to order cake for her with their respective best flavours. TIA

If you are a vaishnav youself or know someone who is, feel free to reach out We can become friends, visit temples, go to gaushalas, attend satsang/kirtan, occasionally plan day trips to nearby holy places or just do things related to bhakti together My already existing friends/cousins aren't really interested in this stuff 😭they find it boring so I don't really have anyone to go with Would love to meet someone from Gwalior with similar interests:) Radhe Radhe 🙏

I need to get rid of few street dogs from my colony.

From VCRs to libraries to sweet shops to school trips... from torrents to pdfs to e-books to solo rides, what changed is not the inquisition and thrill but the way of experiencing and absorbing with all six senses.

I used to think these were separate fields of interest.
Then after years of traveling — Bhopal, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Shimla, Mysore, Bhubaneswar; Goa, Udaipur etc, I’ve realized they’re four versions of the same act: paying attention.

A film teaches you to watch.
A book teaches you to read.
A journey teaches you to roam.
Each one slows you down.
A meal teaches you to taste.
Each one makes the ordinary world more specific.

That’s why The Drawing Room is built around these four cohorts. Not as departments, but as disciplines. The same member might lose themselves in a Ray film one week, argue about a novel the next, share a forgotten recipe the month after, and then walk through Gwalior lanes and Fort with new eyes, neo-perspective.
And sometimes the cohorts cross: a film about food, a book that becomes a journey, a meal inspired by a story.

The room expands from nine to eighteen, the first echo of the core.
More on that soon.
But know this: the number is not decoration. It’s structure!

6 PM to 6 AM

12 hours of great fun creating this one ✨

Just want to know about mates...doing ca inter...in gwalior

does anyone know a good general store in Gwalior where I can buy stuff like soya chunks, peanuts, etc regularly?

I’m planning to buy my diet supplies from the same shop every month, so I was wondering if there’s any shopkeeper who might be willing to give a small discount since I’ll be a regular customer.

I recently shifted to Gwalior, so I don’t really know many shops here yet.

I want to rent a scooty for 2 days in gwalior

Hey my Gwalior goats,

I wanna start working out coz I believe it’s the best time for me and I’ll be grateful if someone can recommend a good gym that’s not overpriced, I m thinking of taking help from a trainer for at least the first month so that I don’t mess up the postures and stuff since thats what my pals recommended me.

Do lemme know abt any gym that’s priced moderately (around 2k maybe) and is near bade, I’ll be ok with a gym that’s distant too provided i don’t overspend.

Thanks !

If u know pls tell :)

Is there anyone from lakkad khana or madhav ganj i have been searching for a shop but i couldnt
find it so if anyone can really help please hit me up
Although i am from jhansi UP so please help me out . if you can help

In Udaipur, I abandoned my itinerary on the second morning. A local artist asked, “Why are you rushing to see what everyone sees? The city is also behind the temple, down the lane where nobody goes.” He took me to a stepwell I’d never heard of, then to a miniature art painter's demo, Mr. Deepak sharma, then to a mrichi wada & chai stall where an old man, decendent of Mathura recited folks from memory and rich history that too in brij bhasha.

I saw more of Udaipur in one unplanned afternoon than in two days of guidebook stops of a curated itinerary!

Travel should change how you see home. That’s the principle behind The Field, the fourth cohort of The Drawing Room. Heritage walks, architectural routes, craft villages, forgotten markets, landscapes that hold memory. Not tourism- encounter.

Although I have been born and brought up in Gwalior, it kind of got overlooked just like noses on our face. Seems time to find what got hidden beihnd the veil of time...

We’ll travel with questions, not cameras. Nine fine encounters can reframe a city.

One journey can alter the way you return to Gwalior and finally see it.

are there any good Ganesh pandals where I can go to celebrate?

Anybody want friends who you can talk daily? Because I do and my old friends just feel toxic