Mission Delhi – Ram Charan, Central Delhi Mission Delhi by The Delhi Walla - June 21, 20240 One of the one percent in 13 million. [Text and photo by Mayank Austen Soofi] The elderly man is sitting by the crowded market lane, on a brick cushioned with a folded plastic bag; His right arm is raised forward, holding five packs of matchsticks. A few packs are lying in a small black polythene bag, between his feet. Ram Charan is a hawker of matchboxes. This has been his career for a long time. “Some people arrive in the city and get into the business of selling balloons, some start to sell budiya ke baal, some sell seb-aur-amrood… I started selling maachis when I arrived in Dilli 20 years ago from my village in Budaun,” he says. The profession has helped him