Teaching kids to be patient will make them better drivers

It was a combination of events that led to an extended stay in the United States of the Free and the Brave. And it confirms my constant impression that most of its citizens are completely unexceptional. And by that I mean that they don’t do anything shockingly different from what we Indians do, really.

In many ways, I’m biased towards Indians, naturally. I do believe that we are better than them in many, many ways. But we won’t realise this until we are done blindly aping what we appear to unconditionally consider a better...