Rahul Banerjee did not make his millions in the Silicon Valley. In fact, he has never been to the Silicon Valley. He hasn’t made his millions either.

Instead he has written a book- and the book has not found a publisher. So he did not make his millions this way either.

But Rahul Banerjee found a wealth of experience and inner satisfaction of having spent a life among the poorest of the poor in the country. He represents that diminishing tribe of middle- class young men and women fired with an empathy for the downtrodden, forsake what could have been more comfortable lives, to work for, and with what Dostoevsky’s called the ‘insulted and the humiliated’.

Haddi and I decided to finally take matters in our hands and visit the Regional Passport Office. We had a letter of recommendation from our registrar, an IAS officers. We had to haggle with a member of a community which could have been subjected to Hitler’s holocaust, only if Hitler would have been a Tamilian. In short an auto wala.