The romantics are probably men who have the gift of pomposity, selfish little men with an evolutionary advantage in a world where there is another kind of men, men who wait. A striking young woman in a light-brown salwar-kurta crosses the road. The young woman gets in and shuts the door, but the Indica does not move. Jamal imagines that the system would not take a man who is with a young woman in a little blue hatchback seriously. ‘Sir?’‘I am here.’‘Sir, what do we do about the girl?’‘This is going to be messy.’Excerpted with permission from Miss Laila, Armed and Dangerous by Manu Joseph, published by HarperCollins India.

Source: Hindustan Times September 17, 2017 03:33 UTC