Metro Ritual 5

Weekend the Metro works a bit slow. I thought it was because of the lazy weather but then I recalled that it has been happening for some other reason.

Weekend the metro is boarded maximum by people with luggage. These people travel only when there is an extended holiday or something. With so many luggages to handle, they usually forget where they have kept their token or card. They’ll keep putting their token at the wrong side and will drop their luggage right in between the entry gate which will put them between the automatic block molesting them from both the sides. So help these wanderers or confused souls and guide them and save some time in your Metro travel. You never know you might get a free achaar ka dabba or Gujrati thepla as a helping gift as you hold the heavy cumbersome bag of the old lady or tau.

Metro Ritual 4

Men purposely standing right in the middle of the general coach and the ladies coach are usually considered as desperate.

Metro Rituals 1-3

1. · Every kid is fascinated by the poles in the metro. For them they are like swings and metro is like a playground. They’ll keep running from one end to another until and unless you get hypnotized.
2. · People going to Gurgaon in Metro look different than others especially during office timings. They’ll have laptops and will flaunt their company’s access cards. Everyone will get to know what meetings they are going to attend that day or the names of the people in the office.
3. · I must say people love following Buddhism here especially when they are waiting for the train. What I mean here is that they’ll always be following the so called ‘middle path’ and stand there even when the announcement says to keep that space empty for the passengers coming out of Metro.

Jhansi Ki Rani in Metro

I recently met a Jhansi ki Rani in Metro. Must say she was totally taking a toll of the men who entered the ladies compartment. The four bogies Metro is really something which creates confusion inside men. But isn’t it a small thing to realize that the point of confusion can be worked out easily. Jhansi ki Rani showed no mercy on these petty men. She fought with them until and unless they surrendered and left the bogie. One of the guy said, “Arre madam, we are not causing any trouble to any female here!” and the mighty lady looked at him fiercely and her reply caused a long pause in the Metro premises. She said, “You are not causing trouble here but we have been suffering since centuries, just because of you guys! This is our right and we know how to get at least this one!” The moment she completed the dialogue all the men left the compartment silently looking down in shame. I paid my tribute to this Jhansi ki Rani along with others by passing a confident smile as the guys were moving out of the compartment. Two three were still there because they didn’t understand whatever she said as it was in English. Sometimes I think we can have real life subtitles running especially in such situations.

Fake in the Fog

Winters in metro are not really friendly I can see and even smell, people who are lazy to take bath in the chilly weather of Delhi. But what's fancy about winters is that you see a lot of people who have this crazy line of winter clothings. With the fake looking Zara to Puma, people wear anything possible which has a tag. But the matter of fact still remains is why these people never realise that if you want to ever buy such stuff, you should see at least the spelling of the brand. I recently saw a female wearing PUMA with a horse printed on it. This is really what you call iscross breeding or you can say cross branding.

And dude what's the matter with those sparkling boots. I bet they have the same quality fur which those fancy purse have which people used to buy from melas for twenty bucks. I really don't want to comment on affordability over here, but the taste of the people. I recently saw this female who was walking with her boots tip tapping loudly in the metro. Everybody was looking at her. the best part was when they saw her fancy black sparkling boots, everyone was laughing at her. One prompltly said, "Who is she going to kill with those on?" and I replied "Yes" without giving any pause to the situation.

A friend

It has been almost three months now and everything seems to change, especially your life after passing college. I sometime feel that how much the four-hour journey makes one tired. But metro seems to be the escape from the busy roads in the monsoon season. Metro has incredibly doing well and everyday I see the crowd brimming up. I have seen people getting flexible in adjusting themselves in the minimal of the space. I was standing on my toes because the female fraternity was all around me. I held the handles with both of my hands so that I don’t bump into any one. In this crooked situation, I met a girl once. She was just standing quite near to me. A fat lady struggled herself between the crowd and almost pushed us while walking out. I made an irritated face, so did the girl. We both looked at each other and exchanged the looks of disgust. And then the conversation began. I looked at her closely while talking because I found her quite interesting. I noticed this girl in the metro for the past one week, but never thought I’ll ever talk to her because there were so many seen faces around metro whom I never befriended. So as we started talking, about the crowd, about female compartment, then peculiar females and then we didn’t stopped till today. I would have probably hated myself now, if I were the kind of a girl three weeks ago. All of this would have happened because of the amount of chitchat I have started off with her. She works in a fashion firm and has graduated from NIFT. And she is a straightforward personality. The first day itself this female made me realize that I need to reduce my weight. Well her comments did encourage me to start exercising daily. She told me about her family which comprised of about six siblings including her. As she mentioned this she had a big smile, as she knew how I would react. And thank God she smiled, because I was totally shocked. So now both of us have started going together and find an amusing time in Metro, sharing jokes, making more friends and yes being sarcastic to some irritating fellows. (I' m still learning being that) Sometimes I wonder making friend when you are twenty-one has great benefits. One is that you have almost reached maturity and the other is that you have more experiences to share. I hope this friendship become better as the journey goes on.

Life, Anna, Metro

The Anna movement is all over the nation. Everyday in Delhi is like living a patriotic movie. The Ramlila Maidan or India Gate, I can picture every bit of it in the History books that will come in the following years. Everyone is affected by the corruption in India, but this man Anna, has the balls to question the Government on its face. The Jan Lokpal Bill and Anna’s team are fighting for months for this Bill eradicate corruption completely. I often hear people talking about the movement in the Metro, giving opinions about his hunger strike and the Bill.

Recently, I read some news on China’s warfare building a huge army of 2.25 million people and causing worries for us. But on the other hand Team Anna is no less in support. It has reached upto four million! The former was scary for everyone, but latter is causing quite a big amount of pain in Government ass.

If it is in Delhi then it is in metro also. I see people with Anna topis everyday shouting ‘Inquilab Zindabaad’ and ‘Vande Maatrm’ in the Metro premises. Well the new generation is no less in giving interesting slogans. For instance, twinkle twinkle little star, Anna s a superstar and something like Na na na naare, Anna Hazaare! One can imagine the number of people going crazy on winning the Cricket world cup but against corruption the number is crossing all records.

The smell of sweat, the fragrance of nationalism has filled the Metro completely.

I always used to sit with my grandpa and talk about the scene during Independence. He used to tell me various stories about the movement at that time. How different people came in the picture to lead the movement. Though Gandhi was the biggest leader, there were others much stronger than him playing their roles silently. Imagine the moment then and see the upsurge now. With so many inventions and makeover of technology and the media, Anna’s movement has gained maximum momentum. It is the biggest unification moment India has ever observed.

Anna’s topic has over shadowed the conversations in the Metro. Now people talk sensible stuff. Instead of dirty talking over the phone or talk about the episodes they missed of the stupid saas bahu sagas, the people in the Metro talk about corruption and how Anna is handling the movement.

I remember the day I went to see him. It was his last day of fast and the amounts of people participating were humungous. I saw people in white dhoti kurta, young ones with painted tattoos on their skins of Indian flag. It was a time to remember, everyone participating with so much agitation gathered so much confidence inside me, made me proud being an Indian. Balls to energy drinks, imagine the amount of enthusiasm, one gets when there are thousands of people around you with one motive in their heads.

Well the fast ended well achieving it’s purpose or half of the purpose as quoted by Anna. Someone has said nothing is constant and nowadays I see these words turning into reality. Within a few days, things have changed.

It’s either the busy schedule or the weather I don't know why I have stopped hearing about Anna on board.