However, now the lone survivor of the BMW accident is getting visitors, flowers and has a private nurse to look after him. At least a part of Delhi is caring.

Delhiites are dropping in, wishing ``Get well soon'' to the man who survived the most bizarre accident in the city in recent years. On Tuesday, a woman came with a boquet of roses. ``She said something in English which I could not follow,'' says Manoj.

Patients in the ward say that she came in rushing, looking rather nervous and asking for Manoj. She left the flowers and went. The other patients in the ward has told Manoj to look at the visitors and the gifts suspiciously. They still don't trust anyone. ``We were all suspicious and asked the guard to throw away the flowers,'' says a patient.

On Monday, an old woman came to visit Manoj. She said she had read about him in the papers and gave him a Rs-100 note. Manoj accepted it. He had, however, refused the money that a man had brought a week ago. The physically disabled man who came, say the patients, tried to give him Rs 1,000.

A Delhi-based NGO, which wants to remain unnamed, has appointed a nurse from the Nightingale Nursing Bureau to look after him.

Manoj badly needs her. Till now, it has been the people around and the relatives of the other patients in the ward who have been helping him to empty the catheter or clean the bed pan.

``I may not get to wash myself for another six months,'' says Manoj. Doctors have told him that he could move around in a wheel chair for six months after which he may be able to walk.

Manoj lies in the orthopaedic ward, wearing just the red shirt he had on at the time of the accident. ``My sweater and jacket are all ruined. I will have to buy a sweater,'' he says.

Manoj came to Delhi six years ago dreaming about a governnment job that never was. ``My friend who was working in a hotel here said he could get me a job. I had finished my XIth standard exams. But here I got trapped in this hotel job,'' he says.

His face freezes when he recalls the Saturday night. He shudders again: ``If I return to Jaspur I will not come back.''