Deepak Mishra

        I have been in Bangalore for years, and I have not seen any auto driver accepting a ride by the meter. They have excuses to not obey the meter and always charge double, one and a half times of the meter or fifty rupees more. There are mainly three main excuses. Between 10 PM and 6 AM, the reason is the night charges, which are double, saying that it's Government rule. Between 9 AM and 1 PM or between 5 PM and 9 PM, they take more because of the heavy traffic. Between 6 AM and 9 AM, between 1 PM and 5 PM or between 9 PM and 10 PM, they demand more saying that they have to come back empty.           For  point 1: The night charges are applicable from 10 PM to 5 AM, not 6 AM; also the night charges are 1.5x, not double.           For point 2: Heavy traffic is a satisfactory justification, but they exploit it to extract out money from the customer's pocket, due to customer's critical obligation to re...

After returning to Bangalore after more than 2 years, first day I with my 2 co-founders Rohit and Sumit spent in searching for PG and we got one in JP Nagar Phase 6. At night, Sumit slept early, but I and Rohit did not. At night 2AM, I and Rohit were in a mood to have tea. So we left the PG in search of tea. We asked a auto driver where can we get tea, he pointed in a direction towards Jayanagar. We started walking towards Jayanagar. After a kilometer, a drunk guy stopped us and started asking questions. Hi, I am Madhusudan. Do you watch movies? What kind of movies you like? Blah Blah. I am writing a story and wanted to know how people (like we 2) behave at night. My story is a action thriller about a shootout in 24A Main Hotel. Madhusudan was too drunk to stand or keep his hands still. Rohit was not comfortable at all and was not entertaining him but I was. I welcomed his questions completely for fun. After he told his story, I told him that I wrote a story in college and maile...