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Mumbai's air-conditioned trains have finally arrived. Why did they take so long? For a few years now, Mumbai has been talking about air-conditioned local suburban trains! Every day as commuters sweat it out in the stuffy, humid jam packed trains, they have been dreaming of the day when ACs will cool their journey to the city. Four million people must be having the same dream every day. And finally the day arrived when the prototype or sample air-conditioned train made by the Integral Coach Factory in Chennai arrived in the city. The showpiece train was put on the tracks and must have even started on its trial run, when some engineer must have shouted with fright, “The train is too tall, it won’t pass under that bridge!”
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People coming home ask me why I still keep most of my junk, and I tell them of the same conversation I had with my car. “Where’s the car?” they ask, and I tell them about the talk we had:
“Garages!” said my car that day, “are meant for cars but look inside your garage, the whole of last night I was cramped against that silly cot which went on sliding onto me.”
“That’s my old baby cot,” I said stubbornly.
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“Bob, please look for a suitable boy for my daughter!” said the voice of an old friend of mine on the phone.
“So your daughter has finally decided to get married?” I asked surprised.
“No, but I want her to settle down!” said the mother.
Settle down!
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It was blistering hot as I lay on the deckchair, in a beach somewhere in the country, and like all Indians, was happy to have the large umbrella protecting me from the harsh sun blazing overhead. But, not the middle-aged white couple next to me. They seemed to be enjoying the sun, albeit a little grumpily as I soon found out, when I turned to them, smiled and asked how they managed the heat so well.
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It was a huge cheque I saw in the newspaper!
Specially made for the occasion, designed for the publicity it would fetch. I looked closer at the newspaper picture, and saw that is was being given to some cancer- ridden child at a cancer hospital and was being presented to him by an actor.
I felt sad and disgusted as I saw this publicity stunt.