Bargaining from a poor seller and paying tips to a person in an affluent restaurant. This is an expression of supremacy over the poor and submissiveness before the affluent people. It is a common scene where people bargain with a vegetable seller in a street, all the while pinching, snipping and pressing the vegetables, testing the quality of almost each and every piece. Meanwhile, they also try to gain the approval of other buyers by looking at them, while criticising the fellow being exorbitant.

Similarly, wholesale middle persons exploit the farmers by paying them the least or even less price than the cost of production. There is a chain of exploitation in which at the end only the poor and powerless people get exploited the most.

Whereas, the same person’s behaviour in a supermarket is different, very much disciplined. This is a game where the strong will show might over the weak, and there are various means to show this.

While working in parts of the districts. In a typical government office, the boss sits on a chair with a white colour turkey towel laid behind. Even to show where the boss is going to sit the towel is used. It is similar to reserving a seat by throwing a kerchief on a seat before getting into a crowded bus. Even if someone comes near, the next person says ‘unnaru’ in Telugu Language, it means someone is there. The ghost person occupies the seat in the name of reservation.

During a meeting, the boss is served tea in a cup and a saucer. The people sitting close and in the first row are served tea in a cup. All other people in the room are served tea in a plastic cup. The hierarchy of position of a person in space defines the value of the person. When the superiors visit the office, they occupy the seat of their subordinate, as they cannot take any other seat, which will lessen their power.