I recently read a centre-piece written by a senior citizen for our City's newspaper. He writes that when his father bought him a bicycle, he had to get a licence from the local police station, to ride the bicycle. The police station issued him a metal plate, which he had to fix below the headlight. Now that's a far cry from today's world, in which we do not aspire to buy a bicycle anymore! That is not all. When the family bought a radio (people called it a radio set, in those days), they had to get a licence for it, from the local post office! The family paid fifteen rupees a year for this licence. Today, none of us would be willing part with a rupee, to use a radio.