Rule of the wild

When they are upon you and around you - menacing and feral and grinning because they know their power?

I  am a recent migrant to Delhi. And it has taken me some time to get used to the city's quirks. For example, I have gone from wordless horror to a shrugging acceptance of the fact that if a door or a window is left open, monkeys may stroll into your home and commit minor acts of mayhem. Since I am no great fan of the wild — you won't find me swooning over the magnificence of an animal that can bite me or eat me — I keep my doors and windows mostly shut. (And hence survive mostly in