autowallah

The autowallah surely has a point in the woman trying to be unnecessarily sisterly about a very commercial relationship, but a reverse class-bias is also quite apparent - Women having "boyfriends" are not supposed to call the autowallah bhaiyya.

Kafila 2009

By saying "ke saath baithkar" makes it specific in the other direction - that to sit in the auto with your boy friend and call the autowallah "bhaiyya" isn't allowed.

Kafila 2009

The autowallah for a change was playing Hindi songs and lucky me, I got a chance to listen to 'Nazar ke Saamne' and 'Tu Meri Zindagi Hai' from Aashiqui.

Archive 2004-05-01 Chirayu 2004

Groups of people stand in long-suffering silence at deserted bus stops, harassed homemakers desperately search for an ATM or a grocery shop that doesn't have its shutters down, the feeble and frail are forced to pay hefty sums to their resident autowallah to get to a hospital that may or may not treat them immediately.

The Hindu - Front Page 2010

Maybe the 'third' element which can be argued upon here is the idea of "friendliness", of a relationship of respectful familiarity, which both the autowallah and his woman passenger need to address between them.

Kafila 2009

The owner may be a chaudhury, thakoor, shastry, sharma or even yadav, banerjee, chaterjee, a cyrian christian, menon, nayar etcetc … it s also possible that the autowallah may be the real owner. he could be dalit / bahujan or muslim (as is the case by and large) or others as well.

Kafila 2009

Yes, there is a class bias when it comes to the middle class woman's attitude towards the autowallah, but that does not disturb the feudal-sexism of the autowallah towards middle class women (or women of his own class).

Kafila 2009

But with that comment, the autowallah is trying to legitimize his gaze.

Kafila 2009

And you hold the bringing up of the autowallah issue against them.

Kafila 2009

First of all, we have to acknowledge a basic premise - that it is because of the statement written in the auto, the motives of the autowallah are up for discussion.

Kafila 2009