The Sixth Morning 167-189

Part1

At 6:20 am Balram returned from an accident which happened in an outsourcing company Balram is working with. In this chapter Balram is going to talk about how he got corrupted from a sweet, innocent villager into a citified felloe full of debauchery, depravity and wickedness. Those changes happened because of Mr. Ashok who came innocent from America and turned corrupt in India. He changed and how could a servant not change with him? On day Balram drove him to the mall, the Sheraton hotel, where Mr. Ashok got himself a Nepali girl, the PVR Saket, a huge cinema like the ones in America and than finally back home. While waiting at the cinema he talked to another servant and read American magazines with women as a cover.
The friendship ended like every other servant-servant friendship, when the master needed the servant. Balram took the car after he drove Mr. Ashok and the girl home. He drove around the malls and trough the streets.

The next morning nothing happened so Balram had a bad feeling about the last night. He eavesdropped on them and heard that the girl was is former love and not a Nepali or prostitute. They met because Balram told her he changed but she isn’t convinced because with one phone call from his father and brother he was the old one.

The Minister’s sidekick, a man Mr. Ashok met when he brought a lot of money to the minister’s house, came with him the other night. They talked, drank whiskey and stopped for a Russian prostitute which looked like Kim Basinger an American actress. She spoke perfectly Hindi and was in real a Ukrainian student. All three went to a hotel an hour later Mr. Ashok came outside in a bad health. Balram drove back and wanted them to come out but then a police officer came and Balram left.

On the way home Balram was bitter and thought about Delhi, the civil war and the blood on the streets. That night, driving alone trough Delhi, he saw hundreds of homeless people. Back in the Buckingham Towers B Block the gatekeeper saw Balram again returning alone.

Before he went to his room he went to the back of the car to look for a golden hair, which he still keeps in his desk today.

Part2

Part3

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