New Delhi, Aug. 13 -- As the second week of August rolled in, 39-year-old Banarsi Shah began making plans to head back to his village near Begusarai in Bihar. An auto worker at the diesel engine unit of Maruti Suzuki's Gurugram plant, Shah had hit the jackpot: a nearly three-week-long leave. "I don't really know what is happening to car sales or the economy," he said over the phone from his village. "I hope to come back on 1 September."...