Hyderabad Days: the code we lived by before we coded is a warm, witty memoir set in a middle-class Hyderabad colony of the 80s and 90s, a world of barefoot cricket, hot bajjis, fan letters to television goddesses, and jamun-stained summers that shaped the early instincts of a future engineer and executive.

Through a series of vivid vignettes and stories, Ravi captures a childhood filled with friendship, mischief, and small moments that become lasting memories. He shows how the rhythms of colony life — a streetlamp study session, a cricket match played with borrowed gear — can echo decades later in rooms far from where they began.

Whether you grew up in Hyderabad or halfway around the world, this is a story about home, memory, and the magic of growing up with nothing and everything.

Hyderabad Days is being published by 8080 Books and distributed by Simon & Schuster. The foreword is written by Greg Shaw, co-author of Satya Nadella’s Hit Refresh and Kevin Scott’s Reprogramming the American Dream. All author proceeds are donated to charity.