Wednesday, April 01, 2009
Posted at 3:53:00 PM
Years ago, there was a television serial that I loved for its name: Junglee Toofan Tyre Puncture . Of late, I've begun to think of it frequently. Not because of the concrete jungle that Delhi is becoming. Nor because of any storm I'm raising anywhere. No guesses needed thereafter. Now, we're down to the second half of the name. In all these years that one has parp-parp ed around town, never have I experienced that sickening tug at the triceps as I have begun to, recently. The first time my car suffered a puncture with me at the wheel.