It is common to find a leaders house in a village is centrally located. There used to be enough space for visitors to come and sit. Arugu is the platform along the outside front wall of a house. It is the space for socialisation and sharing the information among the people in villages. The space created through these platforms is more than the present day social networking sites. It is very much prominent in every village leaders house. Sometimes a leader is made because of the spatial location of the house, its access and the space provided for people to come and discuss.

In the evenings after returning from a hard days labour, sitting on the Arugu was preferred by the people to gossip. My mothers home in her village was centrally located in the village and it was on an elevated area. There was a platform which also faced the village well, many people preferred to come and sit here especially in the evenings. Across the street, the village heads house was there. In those days, we also used to listen to the Telugu film songs on the loudspeaker played over the gramophone records.

A platform in front of the house, for socialization and communication