At about five in the evening, the onset of Bengaluru’s infamous peak-hour traffic, a white Mercedes Benz is parked diagonally opposite Santosh Chat Counter, a small but bustling chaat shop near the intersection of Infantry Road and Union Street. A Santosh Chat employee rushes to the car, hands over a parcel, and gets some cash. But for a few minutes, the tiny chaat shop brings a part of Infantry Road to a standstill. Santosh, the owner of Santosh Chat, migrated to Bengaluru in 1994 because of plummeting sugarcane prices in his native place, Bihar. After doing odd jobs for two years, he opened the chaat shop with his brothers in Vasanth Nagar before moving to Infantry Road.