“The good people are utterly boring, aren’t they?” Joshua asked me as I was driving him to Vagamon, a popular tourist destination that is about 50 km from my home. Joshua was in Kerala on a short vacation from Mumbai where he did business. I laughed looking at the winding road ahead. I was going to negotiate yet another hairpin bend. What makes driving an intoxication is the road. Straight and smooth roads like the national highways don’t fascinate me. Road...