"Defending late nights and questionable life decisions since 2024."
Anganavadi Protectors is a curated co-living community for driven individuals pursuing professional excellence within India's technology ecosystem. We provide a structured living environment that fosters collaboration, independent thinking, and measurable personal growth.
Our residents are software engineers and working professionals who share a commitment to their craft — and, at times, to ordering dinner at 1 a.m. because cooking is a skill that remains, perpetually, on the roadmap.
We do not have a pool. The discussion has been tabled eleven times. A decision is expected before the next monsoon. Possibly the one after.
Full Roster
Six individuals. One address. A shared Wi-Fi password that gets changed every time someone forgets to pay the bill — which is to say, regularly.
Class: Ghost
Officially part of the hostel. Physically never present. The room is furnished. Belongings exist. The resident does not, for all observable purposes. Rumored to be "around." Possibly mythological. Last confirmed sighting: outdoors, engaged in something unspecified.
Uptime: UnverifiedClass: Organism
Sustains life exclusively through chicken mandhi. All other food groups have been acknowledged and declined. Oxygen is considered optional. Performance spikes reliably within four minutes of a food delivery notification. Baseline otherwise: resting.
Fuel Type: Mandhi OnlyClass: Engineer
Holds a degree in electrical engineering. Cannot, under current real-world conditions, fix the ceiling fan. Operates under the hypothesis that the fan is fine and the room is at fault. Believes most problems self-resolve given sufficient time and zero intervention.
Fan Status: PendingClass: Veteran
Survived an ACL tear. Carries the memory into every room, every conversation. Walks with the measured deliberateness of someone who has witnessed things. Delivers motivational speeches to audiences who did not request them. The content is accurate. The timing is open to debate.
HP: Partially RestoredClass: Ambient Entity
Does not technically occupy a room. Primary habitat: the corridor. Functions as the building's informal social infrastructure. Laughs at his own jokes before delivering them. The jokes are sometimes correct. This is the unsettling part.
Location: The HallClass: Observer
Speaks rarely. Observes everything. Holds opinions on all matters and volunteers none of them. Special ability: vanishes precisely when group photos are initiated. Background process always running. Return value: unknown.
Mode: Always WatchingHistorical Archive
A declassified account. Filed under institutional memory. Emotional recovery is ongoing and not expected to conclude soon.
In the third quarter of 2024, a single packet of chips disappeared from the common kitchen under circumstances that remain, to this day, entirely unresolved. No fingerprints were recovered. No confession was made. The packet contained the last available snacks in the facility. It was a Tuesday.
What followed has since been referred to, in hushed and reluctant tones, as The Great Snack War. Alliances were formed within hours. Trust, painstakingly accumulated over months of shared cohabitation, evaporated before dinner. Maggi was rationed. A procurement committee was proposed. The committee never convened. There was, in retrospect, never going to be a committee.
By the end of the week, certain residents had established independent snack sovereignty — provisions stored in personal rooms, doors kept shut. Others negotiated bilateral agreements of unclear enforceability. One resident, identity protected under the Archive Accord, refused all factions and has since purchased chips exclusively in single-serve portions. He is respected. He is also the Phantom.
From the wreckage of that week, a new social contract was drawn. The hostel was formally named Anganavadi Protectors — not as irony, but as institutional memory. An acknowledgment that, under sufficient snack-related pressure, everyone reverts. The name is a reminder. The kitchen has a lock now. No one can find the key. This is considered, broadly, appropriate.
Operational Dashboard
Real-time metrics from Anganavadi Protectors HQ. All figures are accurate. Some figures are more accurate than others.
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| Access Level | Anganavadi Clearance |
| Snack Inventory | Classified |
| Fan Repair Status | Pending Since Q3 2024 Critical |
| Active Investigations | The Chip Incident (ongoing, no leads) |
| Hallway Jester Containment | Not attempted |
| Phantom Resident Last Ping | Timeout |
System
Standard crawl directives for Anganavadi Protectors. Please respect the listed boundaries. Most of us don't. You should.
# Anganavadi Protectors — robots.txt # Last amended: After The Great Snack War (Q3 2024) # Maintained by: nobody in particular User-agent: * Disallow: /nap-time Disallow: /responsibility Disallow: /early-sleep Disallow: /fan-repair-progress Allow: /snacks Allow: /mandhi # The Phantom Resident's directory returns no response. # We have attempted discovery. The crawler will not succeed # where we have failed repeatedly over the course of a year. Sitemap: https://fake.in/sitemap.xml