Cars are expensive in Sri Lanka. Even second-hand cars. In fact, the only cars you can buy in Sri Lanka are second-hand, because there are no car factories on the island, and car imports were banned when the economy went into a tailspin in 2020. Prasang was driving me 100 km south to Hikkaduwa from Colombo’s airport, my bicycle box wedged into the back seat of his second-hand Renault Kwid. He bought it when it was five years old, and paid 24 million Sri Lankan rupees for it. I hit the calculator buttons on my phone, and figured that’s as expensive as a brand-new Kwid in Delhi. In Colombo, my college-mate Sarath told me he sold his 10-year old Toyota Land Cruiser for the equivalent of one crore Indian rupees. That’s a staggering sum, I exclaim to Mohit Oberoi,
Enjoyed reading this , Mohit .
Wow! Thoroughly enjoyed reading this.
A languid read :-)