India, June 11 -- The spot under the short spindly tree on Connaught Lane in Central Delhi marks citizen Maidul's anda-bread egg stall. Every evening, this tiny portion of the capital's real estate becomes the middle-aged man's corner in the big wide world. To reach this place, he had to shift his bases many times over, across the country. Some forty years ago, a young Maidul left his village in Bihar's Katihar to find a new life in the unfamiliar megapolis of Delhi. There was just no promising future in the village. His landless forefathers had exhausted their lifetimes as hired farmers. In Delhi, Maidul started as a waiter in a small eatery, close to the spot where he today administers his egg stall. After the eatery's closure within a fe...