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Mayhem on the Expressway!

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Photo credit : <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/luismarina/16627420965/">Luis Marina</a> via <a href="https://visualhunt.com/re/6d51ab">Visual hunt</a> / <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"> CC BY</a> Phew! That was some ride. A trip from Mumbai to Pune, which generally gets covered in 2 hours, taking 4.5 hours can be an absolute pain. Especially, when members of the contingent are sleepy, and the night has fallen upon us.  It's got to be Mayhem, when one sits in the backseat of an SUV, with the hope that traffic on an Expressway, is just a notion.  With a jam packed SUV, and traffic, that showed no sign of movement, we, the delegation try to catch couple of winks to feel fresh, whenever we reached.  Those extra 1.5 hours in traffic, ought to have been the most sweatiest and stuffiest, I or anyone else had encountered. We'd only heard of expressways being choc-a-bloc, how...