I have now started making a lot of those one man surveys, that Khushawant Singh used to make. And have come to some bizarre conclusions. It seems the Jal Board of nearly all the cities -- Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata etc. -- in the country love to own tankers of pathetic condition. These tankers are supposed to take water to areas facing water shortage. And guess what, none of the respondents of my survey remember to have never seen a water tanker that did not spill water on the road!
In fact one of my friends in Delhi said, "The easiest way to find if a water tanker has passed a road is to see if there is any trace of water on the road."
Another friend from Mumbai had said, "While there is scarcity of water in the city its pissing off to see water leaks and water spilling all over the road from a government owned (jal board) water tanker."
I guess there are certain things never change.
