Not for men like him who spent most of their time in the fields, with plants and trees and cattle.
But this bike was better suited for young urban men who wore neatly ironed, fashionable clothes. He bought a new Hero Honda, the kind of bike that young women fancied – women like that long-haired one he had met. Why not? She had plenty of men dying to marry her she was spoiled for choice. Times were such that a girl could reject a man because she did not like his bike. No girl would want to sit on it and ride with you.” Even the woman who served as the go-between brokering the marriage alliance said to him, “Why do you need this bike? It is so old-fashioned. He had relied on that vehicle for years, but just because one woman – a stranger – had made a remark, he suddenly felt a distance from the bike. After that, every time he glanced at the bike, he could not help visualising a charging buffalo bull with impressive horns. But she had called his motorbike a buffalo bull. He wouldn’t have minded if she had said something negative about him. But later he heard that she’d said, “That motorbike looks like a buffalo bull! I am terrified even to look at him.” He had to imagine her face based on the impression her hair had made on his mind. When she turned and walked away from him, he marvelled at the length of her braid. He began to lose his fascination for the bike around the time he went to Tholur to see a girl for a potential match.
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