Sunday, February 21, 2010

Door hat jaooooo.

Hey all, how u guys doin?? Well I had quite a ride from home to chnai. And this weird psych of people here down in dis god forsaken place is just insane. It is actually very difficult to understand. I wonder how pschiatrists run their business here. It is very difficult to put logic in brains here. This thing has been bothering me since I’ve been living here but has become prominent off late. With out wasting much time I’ll get to what actually happned. I was in a bus from home(Kalpakkam) to chennai and the bus reached mammalapuram. I was sitting in the last row of the bus. 6 seats. 3 guys were sitting already. 2 seats empty and then me at the window seat. This guy came in and said 'please move ladies varange'(meanin ladies comin). I asked what? He said please move ladies varange. I said so. He kept sayin ladies varange please move. I understood what he meant. He wanted his ‘ladies’ to sit on the window seat, he next to her and me after him. I wanted the window seat. His lady said leave it and that may b he doesn know tamil. I said I know tamil, that’s not the point. I kept asking him y I should move, as I wanted a reason from him. Which I knew he could not give me. He would not have told me to move if he was logical in his thinking. That lady was 45 may be. That lady was twice my age. HE dint want his woman to sit next to stranger. HE and most men and women like him think that single men are rapists. We single men have been to the state penitionary and have spent a term there for being serial rapists. Or may be he thought we had the power to rape women with our eyes. A women just has to sit next to men like us and she would be sexually harrassed. I wonder if that is so obviuos on our faces. Soon the whole bus was on his side, sayin ‘yenna pa ladies varange’. I was like who d fuck are the ‘ladies’? Is it some alien or some big celebrity. I would have voulantarily got up if it was a couple seat and there was place elsewhere to sit. I am not so inconsiderate. All you like minded women and men with these women, please understand not all men are rapists. There are a few assholes in this world but u don’t blame the whole community. There a lot of normal guys if u really look. Most men are satyriasis, I agree. But we can control our hormones. I mean if I need pleasure I can always find it on the net. There is a lot of porn there. And all you FCP out there. Please grow up. You talk of women empowerement and shit all the time. First work hard for evrything. If you are demanding reservations please understand that reservation is for people who are incapable. In a way you are accepting you are inferior. If that is the case then I have no problem. Why do you need 1 whole side of the bus reserved for you?? You don’t have legs?? Why is it ettiquette to offer seat to a women? Are you weak? Are you not strong enough? Why cant you stand for 20 mins in a bus? And all you girl toppers who used multi color pens in your exams. Just a lil curiuos- where do you think your papers went to?? I hope you know they went to a examiner and not a to beauty pagent. Y did u have to use so many colors. Is it that your answers were inferior and u made up by making it more colorful so that the answer was lost in between. I still wonder how it worked? Wondering if my inferior answers also wud have got more marks with a modern art page in between. Comin bac to this shitty place; This bloody fucked up mentality is an attribute to this city/state. Everybody thinks alike. Even in a share auto a girl feels so insecure. As if all the men are just waitin for a chance to punce on her. This city is so messed up. There is no limit to moral policing. The cops are all over the place wanting to harras you. Where in this world would you have a highway with a speed limit of 40? Pubs and disco close down by 12. The dj stops playing at 1130. The bouncers would pester you untill you pay the bill. How does dancing on a song at 1230 endangering culture and tradtions of TN or India. Or serving better liqour making indian liqour extinct? Its amazing how in TN only govt sells alcohol. Govt authorised shops sell sub standard liqour. One has to go to Pondy or Bangalore. I mean let a person do what he wants. Y impose so many restrictions? As long as the law and order is not in danger what is wrong in any of the above? The whole world is moving ahead and chennai is still stuck. Evrytime I have to take an auto it is such a huge task. Mental torture is the right word. I speak tamil. Fluent tamil and still I have to fight for the right price. If chennai has to grow prople have to accept migrants. As long as chennai cant see cosmopolitan culture this place is going no where. There is this IT expressway- which houses most of the IT companies. Supposed to be a 6 lane highway. They did build it. Of the 3 lanes 1 is used as a parking lot. The other is used by buses. 1 lane express way is what chennai has. With cattle and cyclists always jumping in front of you. I want to know what culture and traditions of chennai/TN is in danger when people party or booze. I always thought chennai has everything a metro should have. But no. I thought I can do everythin what a person can so in b’lore as well but no. Chennai is a very inferior place. I thought I would pay less and chennai is not as costly as B’lore. But I am paying a lot more than what this house is worth. Well actually this a mellowed version. I wish I would have written this when all of this happened. I was listensing to songs and a couple of beautiful songs came up. This song that I heard a few days back. Hum jab honge saath saal ke(Movie Kal aaj aur kal). Beautiful song. This song appears in that SBI Mutual fund ad. Amazing song. And then Iqbal ka Aashayein Aashayein. Amazing lyrics. Truly beautiful. There are some songs which when you here u feel have some eternal connection. Aashayein is one such song. Kuch aisa karke dikha khud khush ho jaye khuda. What a song. Guess I am done. Quite a irregular post. No continuity. Waiting for comments….But please get me out of here.


PS: These thoughts are result of outburst of a lot of frustration. Life has been rude to me in the past weak and more. Please comment logically. Thanks

6 comments:

Unknown said...

true man very true... who the fuck coined the term 'chivalry'? why the fuck should I open the door of my car in respect for a woman ?? should i bloody worship her just because she is choosing my car to sit in...I agree with you mate, though i still wonder what fun you extract from spelling 'week' as 'weak'?

Unknown said...

ur frustation is clearly visible in this blog!!!! i pitty on u dude.... jst wondered how cn a person think so much on a liitle incident( ur bus incident)... it may be possible tht the woman wanted to sit on window side!!! totally agree wid the other thoughts (abt the greatness of Chennai:-))...
one of my frnd commented "Chennai is the hell gate of India!!!" i know the last few days were not in ur favour, bt dis is the testing tym, dis will bring ur true character out!!!! best of luck...

Unknown said...

apoorv, honestly man, why are u such a confused person.. u keep contradicting urself.!! i mean, till about a month ago, chennai was the best of all metroes, and now all of a sudden, one slightly bad bus trip later (and- bad coz, u had to fight for a WINDOW seat- as we used to do in our school bus!!), its the hell-gate of india.. common man, apne faislon ki aur apni kadr karna seekho l singh..!!

maverick said...

@ WingrideR: week was a mistake. din do that deliberately.
@golu: my tru character??? i am characterless:(
@gaurang: Chennai was the best of all metros till Sept 2008. it took me 3 months to realize this is hell-gate of india.

aritreyee said...

wow! u sound so furious!
justified actually. Your window seat incident was pretty bad. Chennai is a bit different at all that u mentioned i know. I get this 'been-there-faced-that' feeling after reading your post. I totally agree that no one should offer a seat to someone unless the other person seems needy i.e. moms with young kids, old men/women, expectant moms, injured/disabled people. I generally do all that and most often I see others doing the same too irrespective of the gender. But I was struck by the Chennai Kolkata auto travel contrast when i came here. Here, the share autos generally carry 5 ppl excluding the driver. Very often I see the men slide into the back seats quietly where it is the women who sit on either side of the driver. But thats fine I guess. We scream for equaity so this is it:-)..fair enough! :-) totally agree that u single guys face a lot of unnecessary trouble totally undeserved. Have seen a few of my friends struggle pretty hard to find accommodation at places too.

maverick said...

@ari: totally my sentiments. i cant agree more. if some is really needs a seat, i'll be glad to offer them mine. but gender is not the deciding factor. and for the calcutta share auto seating arrangemnt, i think there should be an unsaid understanding between the travellers.. but in our country its very difficult to achieve that.