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Tiruvannamalai Beckons: Why Won’t the Car Start?

Chapter 6/17

Parag Shah
3 min readOct 21, 2024

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This is the 6th chapter of a 17-chapter serialised travel story.

Previous Chapters:

  1. The Traffic Cop
  2. A Swarm of Bikes
  3. Old Dreams
  4. From Fantasy to Reality
  5. The World’s Best Idlis

And if you only need to refresh your memory, then here are the last few paragraphs from the previous post.

Abhi was clearly relishing the ice cream and Bond’s escapades. I do enjoy a good Bond movie once in a while, but I’m not a big fan. So, I turned my attention to ice cream and ate it with a sprinkling of fancy gadgets and Roger Moore’s polished daredevil antics. It was the perfect way to end a tiring day.

After some time, I thanked Abhi and retired to bed early because I wanted to leave for Bengaluru by 6:30 the next morning.

Why Wont the Car Start?

I had slept well, but when the alarm rang at 5:30, my head was still foggy, my calves and lower back ached, my stomach felt queasy, and my body just did not feel strong enough to start the day. A seven-hour sleep had proved insufficient to recover from the previous day’s journey.

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