This incident that I’m about to narrate to you here has been retold by me to almost all of my family and friends just so that I can get a sane explanation of what happened that night. This was a decade ago when I used to work at a call center in an urban city in South India. We used to work odd shifts to rake in a few more shift allowances for the month. I was a bachelor then and had rented a small room in a boy’s hostel in the heart of the town. The place was surrounded by all kinds of commercial establishments and used to be separated by narrow lanes. All this between two main roads…