Ask a Delhi driver what their car is worth, and they’ll quote a resale price. Ask Gaurav Khattar, and he’ll tell you it earned a name. Bison, the stubborn Premier Padmini that taught him effort. Chamko, the golden Santro that turned every commute into comfort. Ustaad, the WagonR that proved reliability is simply showing up, again and again. Haathi, the XUV500 that taught him confidence on roads where the mountains had other plans. And Owl, the Innova Hycross, is still teaching him to slow down, look around, and see the journey differently. In Reflections Through the Windscreen, a car quietly becomes family. That’s the trick of this unshowy book. It insists, without ever raising its voice, that we give ourselves away nowhere as honestly as behind a wheel. Khattar writes: driving is performance. Parking is personality. It’s a funny line, until a few chapters later it collides with nine minutes: the most desperate drive of his life, when Haathi surged through Gurgaon’s traffic towards a hospital, and still arrived too late. What follows isn’t grief spelt out. It’s how the driver changed. Anyone who has gripped a wheel through North Indian fog, followed a stranger’s tail lights on faith, or sat a beat too long in a parked car listening to a song that hadn’t finished, will recognise this book before they finish its first page. It isn’t about cars. It’s about who keeps riding with us, long after the engine falls silent. ABOUT THE BOOK Reflections Through the Windscreen by Gaurav Khattar is available on Amazon and Flipkart. More about the book: https://vacationsnippets.in/reflections-through-the-windscreen/ Post navigation The Red String Theory – How Our Differences Can Bring Us Closer
