Should Austin Powers have woken up from his cryogenic sleep in India, it would be fitting for it to be in Bombay’s new international airport terminal, TeeTwo. Without a doubt his first words on looking around would be — “It’s posh!” Upstairs, the building feels like something out of a 1960s science fiction film. Gleam and gloss, chrome and glass, swirling white lines, the Starship Enterprise, designed by Gaudi.

But then, there is downstairs. This part of the building looks less like a cool spaceship and more like a prison building from a Soviet era spy movie, with Kafkaesque undertones — especially if you get there before daybreak. And that is where you will get if you are one of those downmarket folks (like me) who arrive in an auto rickshaw.