The Young India

Kartikey Sehgal

(Also published in the Hindustan Times, 2008)

The author encounters a Miss India contestant on a train journey. The experience makes him feel like he is both, the villain as well as the tragic hero of this tale.

A young and attractive Miss India contestant sat down opposite my seat on our way to Mumbai from Indore. My relatives, some twenty or thirty of them, decided to ‘glimpse’ at this light eyed beauty and took turns to sit next to me. Those …