A few days ago, I was stuck in a huge traffic jam with the signal never changing its color to green. It was a wait that was truly testing the people's tolerance. What should have normally been a delay of maximum five minutes had already taken close to twenty minutes on that day. The patience of those waiting there was already wearing thin and totally exceeded the threshold pretty soon as they started honking deliriously, but to no avail! The wait continued for ten more minutes and finally we could see an entourage of cars passing on the other side of the road led by police jeeps. Well, you may have guessed it right. It was apparently a minister passing by, and to make his journey smooth, traffic was halted on both sides, for as long as half an hour! My mind quickly recollected the ban on red beacons imposed from last year. The respected Prime Minister had tweeted that with the red beacons on vehicles gone, every Indian was special and every Indian was a VIP. Yes, the b...