Monday, December 10, 2007

A high-speed discussion on slowdown

Lila Rajiva
Scene: Chennai airport passenger’s lounge. The Air India flight 172 to London has been delayed for another hour, so passengers are moving around and chatting with each other.
Mrs Spendthrift, a pleasant, matronly young woman in an over-wrought maroon churidar is on her way back to the US after visiting her parents. As she settles down, a chubby man in an expensive business suit, Mr India-bull, rushes in to the lounge.

“Has Air India flight 172 left yet?” he calls out to no one in particular.

“No, delayed an hour.”

“Oh, thank God!”

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