This is an incident which happened about 10 years back. My wife was studying for her MD from a small town in Madhya Pradesh. The roads in that town are very narrow. Most of the people go from one place to another walking or using their own transport - like a motor cycle or a scooter. If you did not have the luxury of owning either one of them and not prepared to walk, then you had no option but to hire a cycle-rickshaw. Cycle rickshaw is nothing but a cycle with a carriage attached to it. So it’s a threewheeler. Two persons can comfortably sit in the carriage while the cycle rickshawala pedals or pulls the rickshaw with all his might. Though a bit primitive, it is quite a fun to ride in one of these rickshaws (provided of course that the roads are in good condition). Bargaining was the order of the day – a ritual which had to be completed. I was working in Merchant Navy as an engineer on board. So it was six months ON and three months OFF for me. During my leave I used to spend most