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At page 128-145 Balram enters a shoppingmall for the first time, Pinky Madams birthday is celebrated and a innocent child has to die and a innocent driver is supposed to go to jail for that.

It begins with the morning after he has bought his new clothes.

He drives Pinky Madam to the shoppingmall. When she has entered the mall, Balram changes clothes and gets in there too. He is excited. After a short while he goes back to the Honda and changes back. He meets Vitiligo-Lips out on the parking lot. One of the other drivers has got a new one way cell phone from his master. They talk about that.

Pinky Madam keeps getting angry, if the traffic doesn't work as she wishes and so she and Mr. Ashok keep fighting with eachother.

On Pinky Madams birthday Balram takes them to Connaught Place. When they come back they are drunk and want to go home. While Balram is driving, they are petting eachother and Mr. Ashok strokes Pinky Madams tigh. Mr. Ashok catches Balram at watching them. He says to Pinky Madam they would have to stop, because they aren't alone. Pinky Madam gets grumpy after she hears that. She stares ou of the window and decides that she wants to drive the car. Balram stops and she gets behind the steering wheel. She tells Balram he should walk the rest of the way, but then comes back. They are racing through red lights with top speed. A child walks over the street and gets hit by their car. They aren't sure from the first moment whether it was a child or a dog or something else, but when Balram cleans the car the same night, he finds some evidence for that it was  a child. The next evening the Mongoose is back in Delhi with a lawyer. They want Balram to sign a decleration, that he was driving the car and nobody else was with him.

I were impressed, when I read that a servant would go to jail for his master, even if he is innocent. I mean in my eyes it already is stupid to do something illegal, just because your master, employer etc. has told you so. But it is even more stupid to go to jail for something you haven't done. I think he has to be very loyal if he really does so. I would probably go crayz, if somebody forces me to something like that.

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