New Delhi: It is 9am on a Tuesday and Rajesh Singh, 30, is travelling by the Metro to Gurugram on the Yellow Line. Singh, who lives in Seelampur in a rented room and works as a carpenter in Gurugram, takes the red and the yellow line almost every day.
Sitting next to him is Piyush Arora, a senior executive with an IT company; the two are talking about Singh’s ailing 7-year-old daughter, who was admitted in Chacha Nehru Bal Chikitsalaya, a government hospital in Geeta Colony in east Delhi, for a week. “It was through his contact that my daughter got a bed in the hospital,” says Singh, pointing to Arora, who travels between Green Park, where he lives, and Gurugram, where he works.
The two first got talking two months ago inside a Metro compartment when Arora saw a visibly distressed Singh talking to his wife on the phone. “He was on the verge of tears, and I could not help asking what was wrong. That is when I got to know about his unwell daughter,” says Arora, who made the switch from his car to the Metro four months ago. “The traffic is so terrible, so I tried the Metro and now I take it quite often.”
