You see it in the physical infrastructure: all those new flyovers sprouting up around the city to enable the chauffeur driven classes to get about more easily, even while the commuter trains are still bursting; the crowded, chaotic public hospitals that get by while gleaming new private hospitals open up.
There must have been seven different events, and we drove up and down the interstate in these air-conditioned vans with chauffeur drivers.
Oddest were the days we set off in David Astor's Bentley which she managed to requisition, together with Jimmy the uniformed chauffeur.
This is a great premise for a movie, and the scenes in which the unstoppable force of Walt Disney meets the immovable object of PL Travers are terrific – as are those in which she is driven around by a needlessly chirpy chauffeur (Paul Giamatti), and faces down screenwriter Don DaGradi Bradley Whitfordd) and songwriting brothers Robert and Richard Sherman (BJ Novak and Jason Schwartzman).
A few weeks ago, I decided to take my family from our home in Delhi to see the Taj Mahal, and asked Ajay, a Delhi chauffeur, which of the two routes he'd recommend – the old Grand Trunk Road or the new six-lane Yamuna Expressway.
Born at Alten-Hessen, originally working as a chauffeur, Rahn combined his football with travelling for a confectioner.
"My outside earnings are mainly as a result of my writing, which I began when my youngest daughter left home for university and I found myself no longer required as a cook, chauffeur and laundress at the weekends," she said.
Here it is fearful and unlikely to take more than brief, grim satisfaction from the sight of a shot investment banker, his wife and chauffeur, possibly their kids too.
Brooks's former personal assistant Cheryl Carter, head of security at News International Mark Hanna, Brooks's chauffeur Paul Edwards and security staff Daryl Jorsling and Lee Sandell are also due to appear.
Much is made of his humility: he gave up the grandiose setting of the cardinal's residence in the Argentine capital for the trappings of a small apartment, and rejected the notion of a chauffeur driven car for public transport.
After a couple of glasses of the green stuff, my Uncle told me an anecdote which ended with the lines 'then I threw a stool at the Belgian Ambassador's chauffeur.
