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Delhi Biker Exemplified - An Interview with Gursaurabh aka Sobby

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I am waiting for Gursaurabh at the Green Park, Café Coffee Day (CCD). We’re finally going to meet after a few failed attempts. Inderjeet Singh, his cousin has put me in touch with him. I recollect the first time I saw Gursaurabh or Sobby as he is fondly nicknamed, at the screening of Gaurav Jani’s documentary film ‘One Crazy Ride’ at India Habitat Centre. He was the funny Sardar in the film and on stage that day. The cover shot of ONE CRAZY RIDE film with Sobby slowly levitating. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkb4558ym5w That was a decade ago and we are meeting for the first time today and I didn’t want to be late. The phone rings, its Gursaurabh on the line, “Dude, I am at the CCD where are you?” I scan the café for him, he isn’t there, “Ummm…I am here, are you sure you’re in Green Park?” Turns out He is in another CCD. Wondering at the logic of having two cafes of the same franchise just hundred meters apart, I hurry to the other end of the market. To find that he isn’t