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 old respectively and that senior citizen aged around 65 years. In latter's case there was quiet short dialogue also that i will share here.
"Its must to know how to read and write these days, i am not educated and don't know how to fill a form", the senior citizen said. Later he said that "I am educating my children hence they will not face these problems what i am facing this time". I was happy to listen this that he is not repeating history and educating their children.
Here i also mention one case extracted from ground report by The Sunday Express's 'Tracking Transition', this instance was just about a platform number. The case was this that one man and woman both were daily wage based labours along with their two children wanted to go back their home town Ranchi from where they came to Bhopal for work. As they were illiterate, they did not know even to read platform number of their train to Ranchi. The family of four had to skip their trip as they couldn't find anyone at the Bhopal railway station to guide them to the right platform. They missed their train and decided not to go.
I know and support to being learned but if a urgency case occur in front of us, its better to solve that with your wisdom in spite of leave them on their condition with a thinking that they use to be like this. Its not a point that if someone is illiterate, he/she don't have right to travel in a train. Yes, they are in vulnerable condition but if you are not, pick a small slot of time from your so-called busy schedule and help them. They are not snatching your property. Just with a filled form and platform number, you can done a meeting of a son to his family who are waiting for him with a wish that this time his son will come with new clothes for his father, mother, dada, dadi, wife. We can't spoil his small wish just with a rejection to fill his reservation form. We can't obviate a family to going their home town because we don't have time to tell them their train's platform number!
Yes, this world is so much busy and going busier day by day, but stop, wait, think for a while and listen if someone in need. We can not be in so much hurry, where we don't have a second to help someone in need.
Its our duty to take care of our parents but only parents!!! There are many who needs you just for a second, just for a minute. A help can make you a hero. Believe in this heroism. Feel privileged. Come on, you are not so much busy...
Anshuman Mathur
anshumanmathur2@gmail.com
13/01/2015
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 old respectively and that senior citizen aged around 65 years. In latter's case there was quiet short dialogue also that i will share here.
"Its must to know how to read and write these days, i am not educated and don't know how to fill a form", the senior citizen said. Later he said that "I am educating my children hence they will not face these problems what i am facing this time". I was happy to listen this that he is not repeating history and educating their children.
Here i also mention one case extracted from ground report by The Sunday Express's 'Tracking Transition', this instance was just about a platform number. The case was this that one man and woman both were daily wage based labours along with their two children wanted to go back their home town Ranchi from where they came to Bhopal for work. As they were illiterate, they did not know even to read platform number of their train to Ranchi. The family of four had to skip their trip as they couldn't find anyone at the Bhopal railway station to guide them to the right platform. They missed their train and decided not to go.
I know and support to being learned but if a urgency case occur in front of us, its better to solve that with your wisdom in spite of leave them on their condition with a thinking that they use to be like this. Its not a point that if someone is illiterate, he/she don't have right to travel in a train. Yes, they are in vulnerable condition but if you are not, pick a small slot of time from your so-called busy schedule and help them. They are not snatching your property. Just with a filled form and platform number, you can done a meeting of a son to his family who are waiting for him with a wish that this time his son will come with new clothes for his father, mother, dada, dadi, wife. We can't spoil his small wish just with a rejection to fill his reservation form. We can't obviate a family to going their home town because we don't have time to tell them their train's platform number!
Yes, this world is so much busy and going busier day by day, but stop, wait, think for a while and listen if someone in need. We can not be in so much hurry, where we don't have a second to help someone in need.
Its our duty to take care of our parents but only parents!!! There are many who needs you just for a second, just for a minute. A help can make you a hero. Believe in this heroism. Feel privileged. Come on, you are not so much busy...
Anshuman Mathur
anshumanmathur2@gmail.com
13/01/2015
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