Gurugram-based Cyril Nair, a senior software executive, was en route to Jaisalmer with family when, just an hour along the new access-controlled highway, his toddler son piped up with some urgency: “Daddy, I need to pee.” They were in the middle of what seemed like nowhere, ominous clouds thundering overhead and heavy rain lashing the windshield. All 44-year-old Nair could see through the persevering wipers were a few metres of asphalt. No sign of a rest stop anywhere. “I had to tell my family that we couldn’t stop… We had to drive another 30 km to find a place with a decent wash room.”
