Dhabba Mittran Da (friends' roadside restaurant) is right in front of the gate of Sundar Industrial Estate. I wanted to meet the labourers here but these were the working hours. 'Mittar' suggested that I better wait at the point where a company sets up a free-lunch service for poor labourers at noon. So my first lunch out was free and it was a great learning experience.

I briefly stayed at the tiny railway station, Prem Nagar, just before the town of Kot Radha Kishen. It was amazing to see the lineman talk to the kantaywala through a hand wound phone. No passenger trains stop here anymore and the ‘goods’ trains serve the nearby industries.