Chapter 2 - "The Second Night"

Summary of the pages 54 - 78:

At first, Balram talks about the situation, in which he has to answer some questions about his caste, family and social aspects by Mukesh Sir and the Stork after he made a test drive for Mr. Ashok. Furthermore, he also bargains for his salary.

Next, Balram describes the room he lived in and had to share with an other servant, Ram Persad. Next to the issue of acting as a Maruti Suzuki driver, he tells of the duties he and servant number one also have to graduate, massaging the master, sweep the courtyard and so on.

Once Balram has to massage the Storks feets, he got, while the Stork was drinking whiskey and chatting with his sons, some hits due to his too strong massage.

There is only one activity that servant number one and servant number two have to do together.

Regularly, mostly once a week, Balram and Ram Persad went to an "English Liquor Shop" to buy an especial expensive one whiskey for his lord.

When Mr. Ashok surveys the servants room Balram and Ram live in, he gets shoked and awards them to get a better and larger one.

Mr. Ashok also awards Balram to be his and Pinky Madams driver of the Honda City when he used to be going to Laxmangarh, Mr. Ashoks and his native village.

In Laxmangarh, Balram visits his family while Mr. Ashok and Pinky Madam eat for dinner by an old man in the landlords quarter.

Proud of his uniform and fame, he got in quarrel with his family because of his wedding and left ahead of schedule.

When he returned to the car, Mr. Ashok and Pinky Madam already waited for him. On the way home, they got in a traffic jam due to a demo.

Personal impressions:

I found the behaviour of Balram very interesting. The time he still were indigent and lived in poverty, he never would be in seduction of contradict his family, but than, when Balram returned with an uniform and money, he appeared selfish and self-determined, not willing to follow any orders or suggestions.