The bright yellow Hindustan Ambassador taxis of Kolkata. Omnipresent, and offer a stark contrast to an otherwise cramped, grey city. And awesome leg room.

My dad used to own this model when I was a kid, and I remember always wanting to sit at the driver's seat and go mental on the steering wheel, trying to turn it and see how much the wheels turn. He later on went on to upgrade to a more recent version of the car around '92-'94. The Ambassador is also used as a taxi in…

All those PhD students currently breaking their collective heads to build graphene-based electronics actually broke their collective heads in anguish. I know one of them. It's time for some coffee and waterworks then.