Writers of fiction and facts often get themselves stuck up somewhere and look around for a breakthrough. It could be a glorious evening and the accompanying sunset or small and interesting events which relieve them from monotonous hours and days.

I too am a writer of sorts or rather a self-proclaimed one! My way of getting a breakthrough is to go through my old diaries in which I had recorded many interesting events or some points.

But the other day, I got the breakthrough when I travelling in a taxi cab from Coimbatore to Ooty. We were on our way to Ooty from Coimbatore and had just reached the first U turn to the hill station. To our pleasant surprise we saw four wild elephants (untamed?) crossing the road and forcing all the vehicles ahead of us to stop. We were happy but anxious as well because it was getting dark. Fortunately, a lorry was slowly moving and the elephants could not move any further. Luckily, in 10 minutes we managed to cross the point where the elephants took another route.