This the experience to share with all of you that one
day When I was going to Nellore on an
important domestic work in RTC Bus the following debate was happened.
There were 20 to 22 passengers in the Bus going to
various places from Kavali Bus stand. Most of them were
employees like teachers and others. They
were sitting one or two on each seat starting behind the driver seat. All of them occupied the seats allotted to
the ladies only.
One of them is questioning the other.
“This Government is useless. Public have facing many troubles with the
useless reforms taken recently. All
prices of the provisions, vegetables, fuel and other necessaries have been
hiked. Nobody is feeling their
responsibilities. Bribe has become compulsory
everywhere. Even a little work could not
be done without bribe”.
The other person is supporting the above statement.
Breaking their conversation the Bus stopped at a
cross road. An old woman and her
daughter with a baby aged below one year boarded the bus. According to their appearance they seem like
poor tribal persons. They looked for the seats in the bus. There were two passengers on each seat of 3
person capacity.
No body has adjusted to another seat to let them
sit. The persons were continuing their
criticism against the Government and the persons whom they dislike. They were scolding the politicians also. The Bus was become like a conference hall at
that time. The old woman and her
daughter with child were standing with the support of the seat pipes. Even the conductor also not initiated to let
them sit. The passengers were drowned
with arguments of support and oppose the Government. But nobody cared the poor tribal passengers who
were also not dared to sit by the side of the others.
Half an hour later a countryman asked one of the
employees of the debate.
“Sir, what is the time now?
He replied “10.30 a.m”
The countryman then asked
“Sir, I think that you are a teacher in a hamlet. Isn’t
it?
“Yes”, he
replied.
“You have to attend the School most probably at 9.30
a.m. But till to 10.30 am you are in the bus. It would be 11.00 am to reach your
school. How can you teach discipline to
your students like this? First of all
get change yourself and then say it to the others. I am hearing all the discussions of the
co-passengers. I suppose, all of you are
the employees. You have to maintain dedication
at your duties. Be prompt and
punctuality. Be kind to others”
He added “Since half an hour the old woman, her
daughter with child are standing there.
Neither the conductor nor the other passengers spared them seats. There
is writing in the bus that ‘Respect to ladies is our custom. Let them sit in
the seats allotted to them. But nobody
including the conductor have not followed the slogan. This kind of action will
suffer the helpless and poor people. Even
we have not taken initiation to solve the simple thing here, how can we
criticize the others”:
All the passengers were kept quiet. One of them asked the countryman. “You don’t know my grievances. If you were in my place, you would not be
talk like that”.
The countryman replied him. “I am also saying the same word. The man drowned in a well can face the
troubles in depth. How can the man
throwing the stones on him from the bank can know the difficulties.
There was a silence situation for a short while. The conductor made arrangement to let the old
woman and daughter sit in the seats.
Later on the countryman got down at a place. Somebody asked the conductor. Who is he?
The conductor replied. “He is an ex-service man”.
The other passengers have got down at their stops.
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