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It’s your head, silly! An hour spent at the Kaumudi office in Kochi last weekend, waiting for a friend to finish work and come along, threw open before me a shocking episode in human life. As I sat inside the not-so-cool comforts of the news bureau there, the arterial MG Road down below was witnessing painful moments. Every fifth minute or so, I heard the yell of an ambulance, bearing a hapless soul fighting for life and rushing toward the famed Ernakulam Medical Centre in search of a second birth. I counted. A shocking six ambulances whizzed past the busy traffic on MG Road in that one hour I sat there. Accidents are made, they never happen, someone said. Does that mean that every hour at least 5-6 accidents happen around us? May be the real numbers are even more. The way two-wheelers and other vehicles juggle past every moment makes me feel I’m a video game addict trying hard to keep pace with the other gamers on the road. I slow down a bit, only to be treated to a flurry of abuses,