Joy Ride

After the Art gallery, we still had a lot of time, quite a lot. We took rest on a nearby bench and then decided to walk to the Bus stand. As we reached the bus stand, SK struck upon an idea of taking a "Joy ride" on a tanga. The tangewala was asking for 50/- for a trip around the palace. We settled at 40/- for a supposedly 15mins trip. As we got in I remembered the scene from Anand and SK remebered Basanti & Dhanno.
The tangewala was finding it difficult to manage the horse. He started beating the animal as expected. After some lashes it started with a good speed. But not for long, it slowed again, and again some lashes followed. Only that this time it was a little more fierce. Of course SK and me were quite unhappy with the effect. But we continued to sit in the tanga, cursing our weight. The horse was in no mood for giving a joy ride, sometimes it seemed to drag us to the middle of the road as if to get us run over by the buses. It was getting scary.
The tangewala was chatting with his friend, about how he is trying to manage the horse. According to him, he tries a lot to make it understand but all the horse needs is lashes, and only then would it understand his words. As if that was true, in between he jumped off the tanga and began beating the horse fiercely. After that the horse seemed to be under control. But it left a bad effect on us. Still we didn't mind sitting in the tanga, as our 40/- was at stake. We wondered whether Maneka Gandhi had ever visited this place.
Finally we completed the round trip, gave the tangewala 40/- (dont know how much of that would go to the horse's tummy). But we knew that all the money we gave resulted in some lashes on the horse and some income for the tangewala. It didn't serve any other purpose.
Next time I would definitely think 100 times before going for such Joy-rides, whether it gives joy to anybody, don't think so.