Summary of Chapter 6

One morning Mr. Ashok wants Balram drive him to the Sahara Mall. At the mall, Balram wonders, what Mr. Ashok was doing all the time in the mall while he waits. When he comes back, Balram has to drive him to the Sheraton Hotel.  While driving to the hotel, Balram notices how Delhi changed this night. He notices all these new hotels he will never enter, because of his caste. When they arrive at the hotel, Mr. Ashok gets out of the car and Balram joins the man with the skin disease, who sits next to the hotel. They talk about servants and how long they are useful.

Then the microphone of the hotel, calls Balram, because Mr. Ashok wants to leave the hotel. He steps out of the building, with a woman in his arm. They drive to the PVR Saket, a large cinema located in the heart of Delhi. While Balram sits under a tree and waiting for his master, a woman comes along and asks him for three rupees. He tells her that he is not one of the rich people and says that she should leave him alone. Later a knife-grinder comes setting- up his stall right next to the tree. Balram gets angry, when the man starts to work on his machine. When the movie was over, Balram drives Mr. Ashok and the Nepali back to the apartment.

The next morning, Balram wonders why Mr. Ashok does not call him. He takes the elevator to the apartment and rings the bell. When he hears some noise, Balram puts his ear close to the door and hears a conversation between the two. He finds out, that the Nepali was former mistress of Mr. Ashok. Then Mr. Ashok gets a call, for a meeting with the minister. The Nepali wants to take a taxi back.

In the evening Balram has to drive Mr.Ashok from one bank to another, to collect money from the machines. Then they drive to a big house in the Ashoka Road. Mr. Ashok takes the bag full of money, gets out of the car and enters the minister`s bungalow. After a while Mr. Ashok enters the car together with a minister`s assistant. They drink some whiskey and talk about the divorce from Pinky Madam. Mr. Ashok tells the assistant, that he was always faithful towards his wife.

At the end of the chapter they drive to the Greater Kailash where the assistant gets out of the car coming back together with a girl.  Balram needs to drive all three to a hotel. . After a half an hour Mr. Ashok comes back and Balram drives him to his apartment. Mr. Ashok looks really ill.

What I like/dislike?

I found it interesting, how Mr. Ashok changed his behavior,but i´m not sure,why he changed it. I can understand the reaction of Balram, when he just relaxed a little and then somebody annoyed him. I thinks it´s normal, that he get angry in this situation. I dont like the part, when the assistent and Mr. Ashok take a girl to have some fun. I think thats definitely not fair compared to the women. I really dont like,what the man with the skin disease said about older servants and how they get treaten. There you can see the, that these servants have an inhuman life.

I found and interesting link about the "Greater Kailash"... 

 The Greater-Kailash 

Here is a nice picture of the Sheraton Hotel in Delhi.....

 See you,

Tim