Summary:
Balram has to stop telling in the sixth night because an incident happens in which a man loses his life, but he wants to explain that later. He says he changed from a "sweet, innocent village fool" into a "citied fellow full of debauchery, depravity and wickedness" because Mr Ashok does so since coming back from America.
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He drives Mr Ashok to a disco, but Ashok doesn't stay that long insinde and wants Balram to drive him to the Sheraton Hotel next. While waiting for his master, he starts a conversation with the driver with the diseased lips. They talk about the future of drivers and vitiligo-lips (thats how Balram calls him) says, that the best case would be a house in a slum and a kid in a college. As Ashok leaves the building, he has a girl with him and Balram drives them to a big cinema and after that to the apartment block. He thinks that she's a whore first, but finds out later, that she's an old friend of Ashok. After that, he doesn't leave the car but has a little ride on his own.
The next day, Ashok wants Balram to drive him to some banks and after that to the minister's building. After another bribe is done, he leaves the building with a fat man and drives them around the city. They pick up a Ukrainian blonde (very expensive) whore and drive to a hotel with a big "T" on it. The fat man, the whore and Ashok are going in, Balram is waiting outside again. He recognizes, that his master doesn't feel good in this situation and as he leaves, he's looking ill, Balram drives him home.
This night he leaves the building for a second time without a permission to use the car.
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