FASTag makes highway journeys joyful. It is also turning out to be a happy business model.

“We’re on a road to nowhereCome on insideTaking that ride to nowhereWe’ll take that ride.”- David Byrne for the Talking Heads’ hit 1985 album Little CreaturesA weekend drive to “nowhere” is every city rat’s fantasy — till it comes to a jarring halt at the long queues of highway toll booths. The government wants to come to the rescue.India’s slow progress to the fast laneIn April 2016, seven months before demonetisation, the government rolled out