SO between teaching and such hectic activism, when does he manage a personal life with wife Sangeeta Kamat who's also an academic? "Both of us believe in the fight for a just and egalitarian society," says Biju. The "rude" New York cabbie, he says, is the butt of umpteen jokes, media glare and governance but the drivers' woes are on nobody's agenda. What about the fact that the high-strung city is rife with riders who malign immigrant drivers, cheat them on fares, leave behind keepsakes of spilled cappuccino, crumbs and masticated gum. At night come the drunks and the muggers who direct the cabbies right into the site of crime. For every breakneck cabbie, there are a dozen behind-schedule screechers who demand to go faster, people who like to flag a taxi in a crosswalk, where picking up passengers is illegal. They like to be dropped off exactly at their door, whether this requires double parking or not.