Excerpt from Tales of a Road Junky[In 1999, an old friend called me up and let me know his girlfriend had been caught smuggling charas in the Delhi airport and was now stuck in jail facing ten years. I agreed to let him fly me out there to meet the lawyer and visit her in jail.]…The next morning I woke early and went to the German Bakery to buy 8 cinnamon rolls, 6 cheese croissants and 3 big slices of chocolate cake. I figured there probably wasn’t a bakery at Tihar Jail. At this chilly hour Pahar Ganj was still quiet. Litter burned here and there and men in woolly hats were gathering about in small groups drinking chai. A couple of the bicycle rickshaw guys were asleep with their feet propped up on the handlebars and I wondered if they ever fell off during the night. One of them was already awake and even at this cold hour he was taking a shower in the street. He stood in his underpants next to a bucket of water and, with a bar of soap in one hand and a beaker in the other, he washed himself without any inhibition. Mangy… Read full this story
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