India, March 6 -- Sometimes, not having to write about 'a' car allows me the freedom to write on cars because I love the concept of cars, yet I do not know whether this is a love affair that can, or will, last forever in its current form.

In the pantheon of inventions that has changed the world, the internal combustion engine is up there alongside the internet and the printing press. It was an invention that destroyed the tyranny of distance more than any other. Sure, the steam engine did make travel faster but the limitation of steel wheels was evident from the very start and there was that one little thing that unless one owned their own railroad, private ownership of a train was quite out of the question. The car, therefore, was not j...