Nine years ago, when I was new to Delhi, I didn't know the bus routes very well. Many-a-times, I would hop on a wrong bus, realize my mistake and then get off at this point or that, after posing inane questions to the bus drivers or the conductor, which sometimes irritated them.
On numerous occasions, I got reprimanded by the irate passengers as well, but then, it always takes me an inordinate amount of time to find my bearings at a new place. No matter, how many times, I may have gone down the same lane, it always appears new to me. I don’t think I like most people, take in a road scene all at once...It goes in, in bits and pieces, that quite explains why, I don’t get the complete picture and keep losing my way on the same road!
Once tired from a morning row with my old landlady (for not paying the rent on time) and late night at the office the night before, I fell asleep on the bus. I was comfortably settled in the 'Ladies only' section, after making a young man give it up for me, a cool breeze was blowing, the bus was... read more >>