Living the present by revisiting the past is a theme I encountered time and again in my four years on the road. Perhaps that is why so many of the books you pick up on the road are second-hand. And, in the days after the Bob Dylan Nobel, it is worth recalling how much the Road in India is informed by his “poetic expressions”. Bob Dylan of the 1960s, the icon of an age of protest, and his words and music, are the soundtrack to the Road in India. But the lonesome traveller isn’t willing to let go, is protesting and resisting the Lonely Planetisation and gentrification of the road.

Source: The Hindu October 22, 2016 18:55 UTC