The White "Late" Tiger

If you want to make me smile, you just have to mention The White Tiger.
Not that I am crazily in love with the book; but it probably is the only book which I’ve completed in one sitting (I guess we can ignore those Engineering textbooks which I crammed through couple of hours before semester exams). Of course there were those two Samosas, and two cups of latte’ from coffee day in between. But more or less it was a single sitting.

The day had started off brightly, with me waking up a little earlier than usual. I psyched myself up for the long “two” hours bus ride to the airport. Really don’t know why I decided to take the bus though. I generally wouldn’t have done it. I probably wanted to act “Cool”, as in “Nonchalant cool”. I guess that was the only reason. Otherwise even today I just take a cab.

Five minutes wait in the bus stand and the bus came right on time(pretty impressive). Five minutes into the bus ride and I got the 1st call; darn why did the bus come on time. I still acted cool, told her I’d just wait in the airport as it’ll be just some half an hour delay. Put on the iPod and tried going to sleep. Sleep, as it happened, never happened.

My spirit was still high, well it still is(this one is for all you suckers).

Got down from bus, strolled down leisurely towards one of the many monitors. All flights from delhi were delayed, no specific ETA’s given, great I thought. Well at least it’ll give me time to cool down from the exertion from the travel, catch a little breadth; this was perfectly playing out to my idea of playing “Nonchalantly Cool”. “Two” mins wait and I didn’t know what to do. She had gotten into the flight, so hopefully it wouldn’t be too long. Now that I remember, I can really picture the old Guy upstairs rolling on the floor and laughing at me.

Half an hour went off with me having looked at every monitor in the place for at least a thousand and one times.

“Well lets go eat something” I told myself.
“Well we got stinking food, you sucker” all the stalls told me.

“Gift-shop” it said.
“Time-Pass” I read.

Inside is where I saw “Two” copies of “The White Tiger”. That tall mean looking guy had his eyes set on the book. I grabbed the other one before another mean looking guy came along.

Now 1st page till last, I wouldn’t tell you the story(C’mon I paid good money for the book, you suckers).

But in between all those pages, I had two samosas, two latte’s and a visit to the restroom.

I guess it must have been some 6 hours by then; still I was in high spirit.

7th hour went by with me searching around for another book. Couldn’t find anything interesting, so re-read couple of pages of the White Late Tiger, but the monitor gave me an ETA, I was in higher spirit. 8th hour it was, the plane landed. I was now in really really high spirit.

Few mins, probably those mins were the longest in the whole white tiger saga, later there she was, looking bright and cheerful, and really pretty if I may say.

The rest all story I’ll save up for a another day; probably when I don’t quite remember the details, giving myself plenty of room for improvisation.

Between all these I forgot, you guys, whoever’ve not read the white tiger, do read it.
It’s pretty nice.