Reading while commuting is a delight open to all – including those on three wheels
In Ahmedabad, news you can use is pinched to its tiniest crumbs. It is not uncommon to see people in autorickshaws carrying a page of a newspaper, which apart from containing hot developments also packages steaming dal vadas. The savoury is made to move crisply in its brief hand-to-mouth existence. The autorick passenger’s joy does not end with the last speck of the vada. When the die-hard shreds of onion and curry leaves are gone, the newspaper reveals a headline on the mountain the Sensex summited the previous evening.
Now, the passenger’s appetite shifts from snacks to stocks and the paper is read in the autorickshaw with the same devotion that mighty personages fix upon documents while flying plush class in an aeroplane. As an activity, ‘reading while commuting’ became the Prime Meme only recently. But texts have provided comfort to travellers since time immobilephone.
Now, the passenger’s appetite shifts from snacks to stocks and the paper is read in the autorickshaw with the same devotion that mighty personages fix upon documents while flying plush class in an aeroplane. As an activity, ‘reading while commuting’ became the Prime Meme only recently. But texts have provided comfort to travellers since time immobilephone.