The time: late morning on a Saturday in December 2003. The place: the highway from Bangalore to Chennai, somewhere near Irungattukottai on the outskirts of Chennai.
I had left my office in the wee hours of the morning, driving to Chennai to visit my wife, then expecting our first child. As was my habit, I had some music on in the car. Aah! The pleasure of listening to the incomparable MDR before dawn, watching the sun rise over a rolling highway to the sound of a soaring Sriraga alapana.
