Arre yaar, cockroach Janta Party — sunke maja aa gaya. Mera ek passenger tha, Patan side ka, usne bole "Sahab, roj ghar ma cockroach marva ma time jay, abh toh party banavva padse!" Chaiwala ne bole "Ane etle election ma cockroach ticket ma vote nakhso?" Hasi aavi. Apanu Gujarat: bijo koi, lado, kachro, amuk jokham — pachhi baddha ne ward ward ma apdo hak che.

Arre yaar, yesterday at Amrut's chai stall, we were watching Mirabai Chanu's old lift on the little TV — a young passenger from Ambaji told me she started with a stone from a quarry. I told him, "That's like our cricket team's first practice on the maidaan, bhai." My wife's got a photo of her cut out from *Gujarat Samachar* near the tulsi plant on the terrace. She says if that girl can lift that barbell, I can manage one more year of taxi shifts for my son's loan.