When a small white bundle landed on the centre of a narrow road winding through a posh residential area in the heart of Kochi city in Kerala on May 3 morning, not many saw it. And the few who might have hardly noticed it.
In a city where people think nothing about dumping garbage wrapped in plastic covers at another’s doorstep, this could have even passed off for such an everyday act. Around 8 a.m., the peak hour traffic was also an hour away or so.
Jithin Kumar, 40, a contract driver, who happened to drive through the road around 15 minutes later, however, did take notice. “It was hard to miss since it lay right on the middle of the road,” he says.
