Ruchir Joshi | | Published 09.03.21, 02:30 AM
It’s coming, it’s coming, it’s coming! It is actually a ‘they’ and they should be ready soon, they should be here soon, they should be with us imminently (or as Americans would say, ‘momentarily’, meaning not fleetingly but within moments), they are almost there, they are competing to see which one can be ready first, which one packs the most punch, the least side-swipe, the cheapest price-tag, the lowest high-maintenance in terms of transport, temperature and other assorted to-do. They are competing; like runners in a heat; except the sprinter in lane one wins in one country, while the medium distance runner in lane three continues onward and wins in another continent! Oh, look, we have one of our own that’s entered the fray the testing is incomplete, the sampling is on a wing and a prayer, but the aut