Today, I saw a dressed, office going youth in a manual wheelchair. He was successfully negotiating a crowded street with uncontrolled vehicle movement, so typical of Bangalore (Traffic Police can take a leaf or two out of the retrograde Kolkata, these guys here just feel lost in streaming traffic :) ). Then came one of those breathtaking overbridges of Bangalore - steep enough to make you slide if brakes are not on, logged enough not to allow you move as there must be one police or another (mis) directing the vehicles and merrily contributing to the prevalent commotion. I wondered how he should climb this near-cliff. I marvelled at his ingenuity, which must have been his daily practice - he latched on to a climbing auto-rickshaw - with enough power to let him ride through the barrier and slow enough not to make the young man lose control. The auto-rickshaw driver and the girl sitting in it, both seemed absolutely okay and normal with this brave parasite.
Long live Indian symbiosis! 3 cheers !!!
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