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IT IS SO COLD OUTSIDE!

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It is very, very cold, here, in Mumbai! Delhi is too much, I know. And Himachal Pradesh and Punjab is unbearable. Kashmir is beyond my imagination!  For us, this much is just bearable. In the mornings, we find it particularly chilly… A cup of hot, hot tea or coffee! Wow! Every morning, our doodhwala boy rings our bell around 6.30 or so. Yesterday, when I opened the door, I instantly said, “How do you manage? Wear something thick.”  “Okay sir; thank you sir,” he said with a very broad smile.  Maybe, no one must have said such things to him! I hope, I not trying to play a Noble Man here. I did feel what I had said, that early morning when it was too cold outside, made the doodhwala boy happy. I had an old sweater, which I was not using for years. I kept it ready last night to give him when he would ring our bell this morning. So, there was a pleasant surprise to him when I handed over that sweater… The smile was ever broader! In the same way, th...
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