New Delhi, Dec. 4 -- It's just over 2pm.

There is very little traffic on the street where I live.

The kids who live in the building are in school.

Their mothers, probably done with their chores for the morning, are resting after having a carb-heavy lunch. They'll get busy again once their kids are back.

The Maharashtra assembly elections are over. The results have been declared. The celebrations have been made: No loudspeakers are on.

And Bob Dylan is singingAbandoned Love,a song that I hadn't heard before today. It's a quiet afternoon. I have just finished having breakfast and am thinking about the auction for the Indian Premier League (IPL) twenty-twenty (T20) cricket tournament that happened a few days ago.

On any other day, I wo...