'Pagla' - 'Crazy' everyone calls him. Why I never found out. Kids can be so cruel to someone so cross eyed and crazy about putting a lot of work in his Bicycle that they would call him 'Pagla', Pagla' all the time and thus he acquired this name. I don't even know what his real name might have been. I don't think anyone does. I was coming back from the Paan (betel leaf with betel nuts and tobacco, a touch of lime or 'chun' and some red juice mixed from the bark of a tree called kathha) shop, chewing on that paan which really makes your mouth filled with red juice. The tobacco I chewed along with other secret ' Ancient Indian Ingredients' was begining to have it's effect on me. Yeah got a little 'High' and then I saw Pagla with His 'Designer Bicycle. I just signaled to him that I wanted a picture, he was all smile and boom there I go - couple of quick pictures. Kids in uniform returning from school got in on the action as can be seen in the background and then the shopkeepers across the street and some other passersby. As always, they were making fun of him calling him 'Pagla'. The whole Incident in iteself was a spectacle. A long haired Indian hippie who speaks the dialect flawlessly, talking to the locals and taking pictures (deep down they were wondering if I was a 'Pagla' too and relishing this Interaction of the 'Looney Tunes'). *A 1958 classic by a Great Bengali Film Director Ritwik Ghatak, 'Ajantrik' is a story of a relationship - the very significant and inevitable relationship between man and machine. The story revolves around Bimal and his battered taxi, an old Chevrolet, he calls Jagaddal. Because he treats his car as a living being, many consider Bimal to be crazy.