The car is not racing yet, says the speedometer. The pulse is, says the smartwatch.
It is a regular weekday morning, and we are headed to Jaipur. This, however, is a journey that is as important, perhaps more, than the destination. We will stretch our SUV's legs on the spanking new expressway that has just opened.
We are talking about the Sohna-Dausa segment of the National Expressway 4 (NE4) – better known as the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway. It is expected to reduce the travel time from Delhi to Jaipur drastically. Roads and highways minister Nitin Gadkari says it will come down to two hours, but it is early days.
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