Back from the brink.. er break.

So there I was in the most colorful airport in God’s own country, Kochi. ( For those who don’t know Kerala is God’s own country, sadly now being despoiled by humans. But let’s keep that for later.)

It was a late-night flight to Bengaluru and then from there to Kolkata by an even later flight. I hoped to arrive in the “city of joy” by 2 am. A rather joyless time to arrive.

No, I did not choose these horrible times to fly due to lower costs, they were forced on me by the airline, Air Asia a...