Will you leave us in near by Institution for children? We asked from Auto driver.
Sure!
How much we have to pay you?
Only Rs. 120 answered the driver.
But that is too much. We always visit the children home in 10 Rs. Though we are three so we can pay you 50 because it is too hot. No madam! That is too cheap.
Okay then! We can pay you sixty. Now will you leave us?
Sorry madam!
Okay brother!
We ran to another driver and previous one shouted back. Okay madam 60 final!
We smiled together. See! This is India, people try to make fool of daily passangers when they visit another city.
No brother, we do not want to go.
An old lady in a Ghoda Gaadi ( Taanga) was watching us. Beta! I will drop you. Be seated here.
I was thinking if it is for the travel purpose or that old lady wants to leave us in the Children Home out of kindness. What ever it was we commuted by the Taanga. It took us almost half hour to reach our destination and paid some amount out of respect. On the way we got to know she was a widow and hardly able to manage bread butter for her family.
U know beta people do not like to commute by all these means. They feel it is against their dignity to travel like this.
Yes! How much true it is. We love to take selfies and love to update on social sites " Feeling awesome..Visited Aagra, commuted by Taanga". Then we keep sharing those pics with friends but when it happens in some common place or in a small city people act like see how these people are traveling? They keep staring you as you are some awkward creature. People are in hurry even when they have big AC cars and honk continuously. And I keep thinking Jis k upar chaat ni use grmi mai jyada jldi hoti hogi.
Sure!
How much we have to pay you?
Only Rs. 120 answered the driver.
But that is too much. We always visit the children home in 10 Rs. Though we are three so we can pay you 50 because it is too hot. No madam! That is too cheap.
Okay then! We can pay you sixty. Now will you leave us?
Sorry madam!
Okay brother!
We ran to another driver and previous one shouted back. Okay madam 60 final!
We smiled together. See! This is India, people try to make fool of daily passangers when they visit another city.
No brother, we do not want to go.
An old lady in a Ghoda Gaadi ( Taanga) was watching us. Beta! I will drop you. Be seated here.
I was thinking if it is for the travel purpose or that old lady wants to leave us in the Children Home out of kindness. What ever it was we commuted by the Taanga. It took us almost half hour to reach our destination and paid some amount out of respect. On the way we got to know she was a widow and hardly able to manage bread butter for her family.
U know beta people do not like to commute by all these means. They feel it is against their dignity to travel like this.
Yes! How much true it is. We love to take selfies and love to update on social sites " Feeling awesome..Visited Aagra, commuted by Taanga". Then we keep sharing those pics with friends but when it happens in some common place or in a small city people act like see how these people are traveling? They keep staring you as you are some awkward creature. People are in hurry even when they have big AC cars and honk continuously. And I keep thinking Jis k upar chaat ni use grmi mai jyada jldi hoti hogi.
Though our country have dual standard for so many things. We are Fair and Lovely white Indians yet we talk to social equality. Feminists who talk of feminism are the one who frown up seeing the village ladies when they are sitting in a group of english speakers ( experienced by me) We talk of Women Empowerment and hardly appreciate the women who are auto Riksha drivers, old women who manage families alone. When an english speaks Hindi he seems cute to us but when Indians speak broken engish we call them illetrate. When a guy with branded clothes is too frank he is cool and when a villager is frank we call them Gawar. We see a person from Bihar and never mind to say Dekh Bihari. And when people from Bihar sitting in highly Administration jobs we walk behind them Saheb aa Gye Saheb aa gye. Yes! It is all about money. If you have money no matter what you do you are alwa so cool.
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