Mappillai 9 - Driving with Hitler before walking into Stalin

As I get in the car waiting for me outside the house in

Chennai early in the morning, I greet the driver and

instinctively glance at his name plate. We’re going to

be riding together in the same intimate cubicle of the

Innova until after sunset, so we may as well know each

other’s name from the start.

The permit reads: ‘Driver name: John Hitler.’

I can’t keep …