“They crawled like snails,
On gray gravel trails,
Honking, beeping, cursing, hollering,
Biding, dawdling or just relaxing.
Oh, if only they could sprout feathers of a quail!”
Slow moving traffic is a daily agony for most of India’s population that lives in metro cities. The reference to the quail – a quail is a bird that can take off nearly vertically, and fly very fast for very short distances. If only our vehicles could do that!
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