The worship of paper

People Like Them

 But not wanting to live on art and poetry alone, the sub-divisional town has begun to appreciate the benefits of ATMs, the Internet and cell phones.

 But intellectuals will be intellectuals, and what strikes an outsider to this predominantly university town is the ingrained sensitivity of its citizens to the environment.

 Not only do the learned sneer if they feel you are tolerant of the plastic culture, even clerks at public and private utility offices put you in your place .

 High on the priority of the environmentally aware is saving paper. A branch of the State Bank of India now boasts of an ATM. My aged parents, wary of such facilities, had to be persuaded to try out their ATM card which the bank had generously sent. But my