The report "Moily travels by Metro, takes the lead on conversation" (October 10) took my mind back some 70 years when I, then living in a small town, was on a sight-seeing trip to Delhi. Early on a working day, I was taken to Raisina Hill to have a look at the Viceroy's House from the outside. As we reached Great Place (now Vijay Chowk) at the foot of the Hill, I saw a large number of office-goers dismounting from cycles and walking up the slope wheeling their cycles. Some were white men in gorgeous military uniforms, others wore felt hats. I was told that they were senior military and civil officers who would normally drive to work from their bungalows but were commuting by cycle to save petrol much needed for the war. What, therefore, Moily is doing today under more difficult circumstances is nothing new and deserves to be emulated. Some six years later when I joined the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in Bombay, I was told by a senior officer who used to commute to the RBI by public bus from Bandra that during war years, Sir James Taylor often boarded the bus from the Pedder Road stop. Taylor was then Governor of the Reserve Bank, a predecessor of Raghuram Rajan, some 20 places removed.
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