The Siena Weekend is dead. Long live the Palio Adventure and Weekend!
It is not uncommon for my friends to call me up and seek advice on which cars to buy. But of late, there is a new breed of old friends who call up at odd hours because they live in San Jose in California or some part of Americana. The pattern is like this.
Most of them passed out from an engineering college, in some discipline or the other, then went back to the NIITs of this world, learnt something like mainframe or networking, landed in the US, got married, applied for green cards, managed to get their spouses pregnant, and already have babies with a
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