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Wait...Wait...someone needs you

Last Sunday, I went to railway station for reservation to Delhi. There was no long lasting queues of reservation seekers as it should be! I just entered in reservation office and took a form but suddenly two adult boys came to me and asked me to fill their form, one of cancellation and a new one for reservation. I humbly filled their forms. Meanwhile another person, this time senior citizen with his wife came to me and obviously like previous situation i filled their form also. Now after doing social service i was able to fill my own form. Indian Railway's reservation form in any part of country is printed in two languages -one side is in English and other side usually in Hindi. A person who don't know english can fill their form in their language (Hindi or in their local language like Marathi, Malayalam etc.). I did not feel any arrogance or irritation while filling their form. But now i would like to open some more cards. Those first two young boys was of 20 and 22 years...

Mumbai's Over-reaction

Mumbai Local, known as pride of not just Mumbai but of India. In a Mumbai local not just people travel but a complete society travel at a same time with children, boys, girls, gentlemen, ladies, senior citizens, vendors, handicapped persons, Dabbawalas!  In Mumbai where if a Local train get late even by a minute, it causes sudden hullabaloo at every station of that particular train route. So, what happened last day (02-01-2015) at Diva station was quiet predictable. Because of some technical wire issue trains stopped its service for about 4 hours. Anyways service was recommenced after some time. But, in this stint of 4 hours what country seen was the overreaction of Mumbaikars. I mean country get the level of fastness of Mumbaikars. The fastness which was uncontrollable for those 4 hours. What kind of ghai (hurry) this is? When those people was demolishing Automatic Ticket Vending Machines(ATVM), setting on fire the cops PCR vans, injuring innocent people, abusing admini...