India, Oct. 13 -- I know a woman who says, 'Can I have a tissue, please?' every 30 seconds. No seriously, I do. Fine, the 30 sec bit is an exaggeration but she does it every 30 minutes, and THAT is not a lie. Sometimes I think of telling her that by using and discarding so many tissues around her she may be facilitating the formation of a germ country in her surroundings, but I fear she'll give me a dirty look. I've nothing against the poor tissues - they are a good invention, though I continue to lament the death of good ol' cloth 'hankies'. They were pretty and had so many emotions attached. Somehow, it doesn't have quite the same ring to say, 'He handed a tissue paper to his crying girlfriend'. Khair, jaane do. I feel that as we have got more progressive with the changing times, we've also got more paranoid and fussy about our surroundings....