No journalist's life is complete without those editorial eyebrows occasionally dropping a menacing task in one's way.
Recently, I endured a week of torture from editors who would make J Jonah Jameson look like a Care Bear by comparison.
I was assigned the most sadistic of assignments: to go a week without using my cellular phone!
This was, they assured me, a hypothesis being tested, an experiment about the state of the overcommunicated society we live in today, and not just an instrument aimed at making me hush around the cubicles.
Considering I am one of those with my head near-constantly tilted at a 45-degree angle, cradling a teensy instrument gingerly between shoulder and ear, this hit me as particularly severe.
Anyway, c'est la vie, I shrugged disconsolately, and finally took down the extension of my desk phone at work.
Text: Raja Sen
Illustrations: Dominic Xavier
