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2005, Jul 08

Random Musings

Filed under: Uncategorized — Hrishikesh @ 21:24

Met a school-mate online on Yahoo! Messenger… The conversation went like this:

Him: hi remember me, i was in ur school
Me: yep, so wat r u doin now?

Point to be noted is, he said your school. How can it be my school, when it clearly is our school? Wrong English. And even worse, no sense of attachment.

Now, for that lack of attachment, I do not blame him. My school was such. Maybe, someday I’ll blog about it.

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Ladies in the gents compartment in local trains

I do not quite understand this. I mean, come on, you have your own separate compartments! That they are far away from where you are when the train chuggs in, is no excuse for you getting into the gents compartment. You would not allow us in your reserverd compartment, so why the hell we allow you?

Now, that was a knee jerk response. Actually there can be a couple of reasons. Maybe the lady is travelling with someone, and they want to travel together, for a multitude of reasons, like maybe the lady or the gent travelling with her does not know the ways of travel in Mumbai, or maybe she feels secure with this chap of ours…

Now, I would not so much mind a lady travelling in the gents compartment, but then everyone does not. Maybe people might feel uncomfortable, the lady herself might feel uncomfortable, and more so, she might complain unagainst behaviour she might feel unruly… Moreover, if she demands a seat, she would have had it from me…

Anyway, it is quite a fix, with no real solution… Anyone with ideas, comment…

BTW, this reservation for ladies in trains is unique to India, as is the reservation of whole trains, as Ladies Specials.

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Age of Empires 3

Expected in the US Holiday season, translating directly to November-December, will be one hell of a game. Will be fun playing it, after the CAT and the sem 7 exams.

Official site states quite a lot of cool features, and the graphics are outright wowful!

Now, eagerly awaiting this!

Comments (4)

Insiya

Well,for starters what you call the “gents” compartment is actually the general compartment so I don’t understand all the fuss about women travelling by it.
Secondly if it’s only in India that there are special reserved compartments and even trains for women then its because only in India are the men that travel in those trains such creeps.It is honestly not safe for most of the women to travel with these men who will most definitely take advantage of these crowded compartments and the women in them.
Insiya

Well,for starters what you call the “gents” compartment is actually the general compartment so I don’t understand all the fuss about women travelling by it.
Secondly if it’s only in India that there are special reserved compartments and even trains for women then its because only in India are the men that travel in those trains such creeps.It is honestly not safe for most of the women to travel with these men who will most definitely take advantage of these crowded compartments and the women in them.
http://www.blogger.com/profile/5164138 Hrishi

My slip up, general compartment, it is. Forgiveness demanded…

For creeps, I do not agree… It’s equally worse in any of the other metros, internationally… And saying that men outside are well behaved is not completely true, just that there are stricter rules, and women are, in general more stern about these issues.

What I wanted to highlight, and it did not come out this way, is that women demand equality, yet need reservations.

This brings us to another aspect whether women really need all the pampering that they recieve, or are they good enough to survive on their own? I’ll try and write about this in another blog.

I am all for reservations and equality, but then you have to choose, you cannot have them both.

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Since you are a member of the women community, you know better in this regard, and therefore, I must listen to your viewpoint. I do agree to a certain degree that the attitude is at fault, but then again, it is not completely a mistake of the males to have the attitude of “taking advantage of the situation.”
http://www.blogger.com/profile/5164138 Hrishi

My slip up, general compartment, it is. Forgiveness demanded…

For creeps, I do not agree… It’s equally worse in any of the other metros, internationally… And saying that men outside are well behaved is not completely true, just that there are stricter rules, and women are, in general more stern about these issues.

What I wanted to highlight, and it did not come out this way, is that women demand equality, yet need reservations.

This brings us to another aspect whether women really need all the pampering that they recieve, or are they good enough to survive on their own? I’ll try and write about this in another blog.

I am all for reservations and equality, but then you have to choose, you cannot have them both.

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Since you are a member of the women community, you know better in this regard, and therefore, I must listen to your viewpoint. I do agree to a certain degree that the attitude is at fault, but then again, it is not completely a mistake of the males to have the attitude of “taking advantage of the situation.”