Rock 'n' Roll Dreams Indian Reality: Two friends. One band. 123 gigs.

<p>&ldquo;<i>Tell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?</i>&rdquo; - Mary OIiver</p><p>Growing up in the <i>khichdi</i> that is India leaves little space for dreams. We don&rsquo;t mean the ordinary kind of dream where you earn enough by your mid-30s to be in possession of a chauffeur-driven Mercedes and a Fair-and-Lovely backseat passenger. We mean the kind of dream that has always had little chance of success in India and is even at its most successful financially underwhelming.&nbsp;</p><p>Vineet and I had just such a dream &ndash; in a time when we were meant to be on our way to becoming engineers doctors or lawyers preferably then moving to some mostly-white country we dreamt of becoming rock&rsquo;n&rsquo;roll stars.&nbsp;</p><p>In India.</p>