Would you want to come up for coffee??

We have always known that this line is an euphemism for something else, but it's only recently that the Mumbai Moral Brigade has realised this.

''I told senior police inspector D N Jadhav of Oshivara police station to keep tabs and we found that such places had indeed become pick-up joints visited by pimps and prostitutes. That is why we have asked them to allow people only to sit inside and remove tables from the verandahs,'' the police said.

The only question in my mind is why can't prostitution happen inside the cafes? Rakshanda agrees, "...Strange things are happening elsewhere in Mumbai, but I have never come across anything seedy at the coffee shops in Oshiwara...". Strange indeed.