I came from a chawl, and when I started out main zyada baat nahi karta tha, mera haath zyada chalta tha (both laugh!

No doubt you can provide a better definition (that is, there's no doubt that you can.)

Radzivilius was much taken with the bassa’s palace in Cairo […].

Might this then be a bellwether tale about the rumored dire effects of overabsorption in new media?