House byline
Relationship correspondent
Diya Menon is a house byline for InfoHandle’s Relationship desk.
Bengaluru couples with families in Kerala and Tamil Nadu are shifting Onam travel by a week as rupee volatility pushed last-minute fares on Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram routes above ₹12,000, forcing split tickets and train backups.
Kochi families with Gulf earners used Federal Bank and South Indian Bank passbook apps to tag Onam remittance splits across siblings this week, after co-branded UPI features let relatives in Ernakulam see which transfers landed before sadya shopping without sharing full account numbers.
Dual-income tech couples in Gachibowli and Kondapur are splitting night-shift weeks on housing society WhatsApp groups, trading calendar blocks so one partner can sleep while the other handles US client calls without violating quiet-hour notices.