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SOUND OFF

These days, the only things that seem to happen on time are delivery of the newspaper and milk packets in the morning.

Everything else seems to work in fits and starts.

Switch on the television, and a grainy black and white screen greets you.

You try calling the cable provider; the phone is dead. The cell phone is with someone else and there is no way to call the BSNL office.

Okay! Let’s check out the computer, you think. But, no! Either it does not work, or refuses to connect to the Internet.

You go back to the television, and the cable is miraculously back.

But after just five minutes, the power goes off without warning, for the nth time in the day, and all your gadgets take a break.

The only source of succour is the newspaper.

This happens every other day.

The whole day seems to run by on luck. When will life get predicable, and happy?

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