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Low life

My VIP drive around Rajasthan

The astonishing beauty of Indian road-menders

26 April 2014

9:00 AM

26 April 2014

9:00 AM

Two years ago, roughly, for a travel piece, I flew to Delhi and took a southbound train to a dusty railway platform in Rajasthan. There I was met by a smiling man with a gold earring who introduced himself as my driver for the week. His name was Babu. I must be a VIP, he said, because he was the company’s top driver and he always was given the VIP work.

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