Raah Pe Rahte Hain - Gulzar turns a truck driver’s ditty into a song of life

23 hours in transit! I step out of the airport with visions of my bed floating in front of my eyes. I take the cab and prepare myself for the 55 kms journey home at the crack of the dawn. The cabbie looks at me from the rear view mirror and I give him my address. That one look should have alerted me. No, he didn’t look like an RGV extra. It was the look of a man warming up to his day and intent on making me a part of the same.

No sooner had I settled down than I was made painfully aware of infinite loops (this is, after all, Bangalore) and Nietzschian eternal recurrences through the mellifluous voice of Himesh “Naak Naak Naaking on Heaven’s Doors” Reshamiyya. I understood what I had seen in the cabbie’s eyes when he had stared back at me – aural murder. Being …


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