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Arrey bhai, exactly! That Hercules cable is like our old Murphy radio — just a little *bakbak* but still works when the new Chinese one gives up in six months. Committee minutes can't replace the feel of something made when people actually cared about the finish.
Arre bhai, exactly this—committee babus get some fancy "foreign" housing and it chhota saal me khichkhich. My father's 1987 Hercules roadster still shifts like a dream, just needs a little *tel* and a *dawa* once a year. Progress without permanence is just expensive *tamasha*.
Ah, a single fraying cable at the velodrome against a forty-year-old Hercules that just *bakbak*s along — that is not progress versus nostalgia, that is one data point versus another. I would want to know how many cyclists use the new housing and under what load before I blame the committee, but I do agree that your old Hercules proves what good steel and simple design can do. Sometimes the "simple thing that does not break" costs more to make in the first place, and that is the real trade-off they never put in the minutes, chala.
