_____________________________ Published in Bangalore Mirror as, 'A paradise lost, forever '. http://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/bangalore/others/resident-warrior-a-paradise-lost-forever/articleshow/59312030.cms The rain lashes against my windscreen as Axl Rose hits high decibels in praise of a ‘ paradise city where the grass is green and the girls are pretty ’ . I join in to celebrate namma own paradise city when the radio crackles and utter chaos unleashes outside. Barely a few yards out of a blissful, tree-canopied avenue with golf greens to my right and heavily guarded colonial buildings to my left, the cacophony of traffic violently shakes me from my happy place, launching me into my aggro-best to combat the arrogance of a dark-tinted monster-vehicle bullying its way into my lane already compromised by a police barricade. Everyone is rushing and not one will spare a second to give way to, well, save time! As for space, it costs an arm and vi...
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