Chapter 2: Plant response to elevated CO2 - DRUM - University of ...

He walks into the bathroom, stopping briefly to wear his worn out
bathroom slippers and stands over the basin, squeezing a thin toothpaste strip on
the Binaca tooth brush (the only fully indigenously made in India toothbrush.
Bhaveshbhai has checked, there are no foreign collaborators, no imported
materials used in its making) and then observes himself in the bathroom mirror.
His gaze travels upwards, to his rapidly balding head and the day‐old stubble
before curiously settling at the foam formed at the edge of his tooth brush
bloated mouth. He checks the damage done by the water leakage: the water
mark on the ceiling had been expanding, its circumference ever increasing since
the monsoons set in and decides he will call their plumber Savle since all of
Bhaveshbhai’s efforts to curb the spread, by applying M‐seal have failed.
He hears a dull thud of the newspaper flung outside the door, and then
there is urgency to his movement as he shuts the bathroom door, gargles, returns
the toothbrush to its holder and steps out with a napkin thrown across his
shoulder. He opens the main door and then the latticed door, to retrieve the
Mumbai Samachar and returns to the bathroom, tucking it under his arm.
Through the ventilator window, he hears some angry voices and peers outside to
see a cycle overturned, its rider shouting at the newspaper boy, who, bent over,
collects his strewn newspapers. Soon sleepy taxi drivers and other street bums
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