Jammu, April 25 -- How a simple tooth extraction gets turned into a designed extortion
By T N Ashok
CHENNAI: It began, as modern cautionary tales often do, with something trivial. Tea. Mullu murukku. A careless bite. It's a wheat based savoury spicy, salty , peppery and after taste is awesome, it leaves you with taste buds with an indescribable feeling of joy. The murukku cracked. So did my molar.
Half the tooth broke away. The rest lingered, wobbling precariously-like a policy failure waiting to be acknowledged. There was no pain. Which, in hindsight, was the first warning sign. Silent damage is always the most expensive.
I ignored it. Flew to the United States. Lived around it. For six months, the tooth and I coexisted under an unspok...