Zoom Qartulad Apr 2026

Suddenly, grandmas who had never used a smartphone were learning to “raise a glass” by lifting their laptops. Uncles were toasting with chacha in one hand and muting themselves with the other after a particularly loud “Gaumarjos!” The Zoom gallery view became a digital supra table: 20 faces in squares, each with a plate of khachapuri visible in the frame, each with a story.

Companies have adapted. Georgian businesses now hold “Zoom Shaurma breaks.” Universities conduct oral exams in Qartulad —meaning the professor and student spend the first ten minutes arguing about whose internet is worse. zoom qartulad

When the pandemic forced this ritual online, Georgians refused to let the app dictate the rules. They hacked it. Suddenly, grandmas who had never used a smartphone

It started as a necessity. In March 2020, as the world slammed its doors against the pandemic, Georgia—a country of supra feasts, polyphonic singing, and fierce face-to-face negotiation—found itself suddenly, eerily silent. The tamada could no longer clink his glass. The supra table, the gravitational center of Georgian social life, vanished overnight. Georgian businesses now hold “Zoom Shaurma breaks

By Nini Kapanadze

Desperate, families and friends turned to a corporate video conferencing tool: Zoom.