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'.....namaste doctor sahab, aaiye'

Today a usual day turned out to be a little different from any other day. It had rained & Delhi went mad just like the Delhiites are accustomed to. People, traffic, overflowing drainage system everything in a chaos. I prepared myself to walk down from the Metro station as I knew no autowala would be ready. Still I tried requesting to a few. Bluntly they reverted with a decline, some looked blank and some did not even bother to acknowledge. I started walking when I saw three to four autowalas and I thought of giving one last try to request them. One auto rickshaw slowed down. I looked at him and he looked quite familiar. 'Do I know him?' 'Have I taken a ride in his auto rickshaw?' all sort of questions started erupting in my mind. Oh my!  he is  the same autowala and simultaneously he spoke "namaste doctor sahab, aaiye" (greetings doctor,hop in ). By now I was a hundred percent sure as to who he was. I got into the auto and said, "tum sangam vihar ra...