Fate or feat of losing wallet should have been in my gene. Seems my father got his pocket picked atleast 3 times. I remember my brother missing his purse on one occasion atleast. Some how I did not carry this family tradition so far, untill recently. I didnot lose nor some one pickpocketed; it just "slipped away" in darkness of evening. The wallet contained some petty cash and half dozen cards -- debit cards, credit card,  Metro Pass, Driving license, etc. Went around the place where my wallet could have given me  a slip, but in vain. My whole family cursed that "thug(?)"  who would have got this purse. I swung into action and blocked all bank cards and ordered replacement. First replacement debit card arrived 3 days after I put a request. A few minutes before that a courier boy delivered a funny looking envelop. It was addressed to my late father !! I was wondering why some one sending this package almost 18 months after passing away of my father. The cont...

We think visiting RTO for Driving License related work, always an irritance. Long queue, touts hovering around, long list of documents, arrogant staff, etc etc. We try to take, so called,  easy route -- approaching an agent. I happen to lose my DL and had to get issued a duplicate one. Decided to go on my own and get new DL, what may come and test my patience and government efficiency. Thanks to digitisation bug, now most of DL related processes are online.  No need of passport size 3-4 photos and not even to sign any where. Even the form itself appeared online as almost filled, once I enter my lost DL number. Missing document was an FIR from police station. Surprisingly, Bangalore Police have even made that online and "It works". I could get "Lost Article Report"  in pdf in about 5 minutes max, at the comfort of my home(not visiting police station). Armed with all these documents uploaded on Parivahan site (https://parivahan.gov.in/parivahan/) and online...