Bemuscled

All the bemuscled residents of the hotel were huddling in the lobby looking like sailors' wives waiting on the dock.

But the arrest of Sunjay Dutt, who usually plays a singing, dancing, bemuscled hero, has also plunged the Bombay film world into a witchhunt similar to Hollywood's anti-Communist purge in the 1950s.

The only men who seem to be relaxed at the gym are those who spend half their lives there - the personal trainers, the addicts, the pros. We mock these bemuscled hulks in the pub, but they morph into heroes at the gym. And, secretly, I wonder: how do I get anywhere near that level of tautness?

As fantasies go, this one is beyond innocent, involving neither a bemuscled UPS man nor an indulgent yoga boot camp with my best friend in Tulum.

I was quite glad to have some wood between me and the bemuscled specimens of manhood in the hall, bristling with sharp things and making me feel inadequate.