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Delhi has always had a lizard problem, but its become worse since 2010. Here in the national capital, whether you are outdoors or inside your home, you are always surrounded by reptiles - always. I know some people don't mind reptiles. They tell me, "Lizards keep your home cockroach-free. They eat all the insects." But I would rather deal with insects than lizards. I can at least go to war with insects, and win. But the very sight of a lizard - no offence meant to the religious sentiments of anyone who worships lizards - makes me lose my bearings. I am like a deer caught in the headlights.

I have tried to figure out why lizards bother me so much. I think it is because they always appear unexpectedly, without warning. I am saying, lizards don't call and book an appointment before visiting, though it would be nice if they did so. It's just that when you are totally lost in your own world, fantasizing, for instance, about living in a country where the mind is without any fear and the head is held high, where knowledge is free and paneer is GST-free, you are rudely yanked back to reality by a squiggly thing falling on your neck. You jump - squirm out of your skin, madly flailing about, until you catch a glimpse of it streaking across the floor and vanishing under your bed - and that's it, you may as well say good night to a good night's sleep. I would not be able to fall asleep, until I have made 'visual contact' with the fugitive and 'demobilised' it.

Unfortunately, but fortunately for the reptile, Wife thinks killing a lizard brings bad luck. I did some research and was stunned to find that in this country, in this day and age, lynching of lizards - is widely disapproved. I merely find it impossible to co-exist with lizards and want to kill them all—a logically consistent position.

But Wife is terrified of lizards and yet, a staunch defender of their right to live. As opposed to having them killed, she wants them 'disappeared' a distinction that would have made no sense to anyone. In her dictionary, 'disappeared' means 'chased out of the house'. Since she does not approve of child soldiers either, I can't take any help for the 'search and deport operations. It's all down to me - just one man against an invading army of mini-dinosaurs.