Sunday bonding

Another epic adventure into the badlands of Noida in search of ‘khurpi’and garden furniture

How do you spend ‘quality time’ with your spouse? Most couples have their own little thing they like to do. Some watch movies together. Others cook a meal together. The adventurous ones bond over a long drive. Myself and wife, we go on a wild goose chase that culminates in one or more purchases that are random, expensive, or both. Regular readers of this column may recollect that last summer we had embarked on an epic adventure into the badlands of Noida in search of that rare treasure: north Indian mud. This time, too, mud was involved. But the script was somewhat different.