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None for the road
He is now a reformed character. Even a few months back, 25-year old Dinesh Guleria’s mind was a roadmap of parties. By Damayanti Datta

He is now a reformed character. Even a few months back, 25-year old Dinesh Guleria’s mind was a roadmap of parties. The Delhi youth would zoom about the city in his flashy car until the wee hours—stopping for a drink at a party, warming up with champagne at a lounge or swigging whiskey at a nightclub.

It all stopped the day he lost control of his car, rammed into a flyover and was caught for drunken driving. The matter was taken to court and instead of slapping a fine or sending him to jail, the metropolitan magistrate gave him an unusual sentence: "You have to manage the traffic at the Kalkaji circle for 10 days."

Guleria was lucky in a way, but standing for hours in the searing heat, inhaling dust and fume—not to mention the indignity of it all—really shook him up. "I’ll never drink and drive again. Nobody should," he says now.

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Source: India Today (http://indiatoday.digitaltoday.in)

None for the road
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