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When the lights turned red ... I clicked this as the van before me and I were destined to spend precisely 133 more seconds at the traffic light. That is what the red light ticking by seconds indicated. Enough time to pull up the mobile camera and click away although I will have to scribble my thoughts later. . The scene before me was grotesque.  I rolled up my windows to quell the stench and turned on the air conditioning. But I could not escape the sight. They were so docile. As though they knew what they were destined for and the futility of fighting over a better view or more space compared to the fellow chicken stuck in the coop.  Certainly they must have learnt the lessons over a period of time. How long could that have been ?  Since the time they were picked up from the poultry farm.  Was that this morning ? Yesterday ?  Whatever. Could not have been long ago. I noticed some were injured. Some had their legs broken or stuck in between the wi...

It was parked in front of a medicine shop at a busy intersection in a small town in Kerala. It ain’t no Ferrari …Mercedes …  BMW … Audi or even a Skoda. But there were quite few passersby in whom it evoked that strong sense of nostalgia when they turned around for a second glance and looked at the beauty. The awe it inspired in its hey days was unparalleled. If you know what that could mean, you for sure are a balding, greying middle aged man  ( or woman ) by 2016.  Bajaj Chetak .. the iconic scooter from the house of Bajaj came to India in 1979.   It was modelled on the  Italian  version of Vespa.  Made famous by Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday in the 60’s There were luna’s,  scooty’s , TVS champ and countless number of motor bikes that came in and went away from the market.  But none really managed to hold the appeal that belonged to the Chetak.  Chetak, named after the warrior hors...