“Aap ko pasaand nahi ji, ye gaana? Shayad ek aur?”
(Did you not like it, this song? Maybe one more?)
And she sang another song, and got the autorickshaw driver to take her to Charminar, with the meter on.
This is how an American professor officially announced to the world, her tried and tested tactic of using culture to get recalcitrant auto drivers to switch on the meter.