Hyderabad, Aug. 18 -- When was the last time you sat in a room with people and explored an idea without opening your laptop or reaching for your phone?

Think about it.

Not the last time your phone was on silent. Not the last time you attended a meeting where everyone technically listened. We mean genuinely being present looking at another person, throwing an idea into the room, disagreeing, laughing, thinking, scribbling something down and allowing a conversation to take its own course.

In Hyderabad, a new meetup is asking people to do exactly that.

RESET, organised by Hyderabad-based Community Architect and Strategy Consultant Shahista Fatima, wants you to do something that sounds almost radical in 2026, leave your phone in a bucket ...