A Letter to Mr. Lalu Prasad Yadav

Dear sir,

Recently you presented the railway budget and i immediately went on internet to see the list of new trains you would have launched. I was diappointed yet again. No new train from pune to Delhi. I wonder how can you have neglected pune entirely in almost all of your budgets. 

Pune-Delhi is a promising route as so many students, employees and other migrants from all of north india stay here that i am sure if you launch a new train it will definately run for more than 100% occupancy. Although i know occupancy has never been a issue with railways. Railways is favourites for all sections of society. I could sense the jealously in the speech of one of the big airline official when he said that in india the number of people travelling in trains in one day is greater than the number of people travelling in one complete year in all of indian airlines.  How stupid i am? I should have known that all this economic reasons are never the priority with government as it is supposed to work for people. Does it? 

Then i thought may be all these decisions need enough political reasons. So what? Raj Thackery has given you enough reasons to focus on pune (Maharasthra). Imagine if there is a good train running daily between pune-delhi it will make life of so many migrants from UP, Delhi, Bihar so easy.  It will make Raj Thackery more irritating at the same time. I am sure this must have gone through your shrewd mind. Then what is preventing you?

I know enough people in pune who wish for a good train of the like of Rajdhani to run between pune-delhi. 

I must say something in your praise which might motivate you to consider my wish if you again become railway minister . Sir, you are immensely popular with indian people. Whenever i travel in train i always hear about you and your work from people around. Recently i heard one lady saying Lalu is best. He takes good decision, he is the one behind the turnaround of indian railways and he is the most entertaining in all of the politicians whose speeches are so hilarious yet so straight and comprehend able by the common man. 

I wish you again become railway minister in the upcoming election after all you are the one who is head of a such a profiting government organization ( I hope the balance sheet is not a copy of satyam). You have done so much and much more is yet to be done. Still there is so much to be done in many areas like cleanliness and catering service. Sir, your decision of introducing khullads was a great one which i don't know why it was discontinued. Khullads are more environment friendly and generate work for potters who are trying to keep this art alive in India.  I know it must have been done again your wishes. Indians have full faith in you. You are the one talking about bullet trains in India. It would be a wonderful sight to see a train traveling at 300km/hr. Sir, this way pune-delhi will be covered in 6 hours. Again i am acting selfish. So what? Everyone is.

I must end this letter now by thanking you. I may again write you if anything i have to wish for from you.

Sukhoi for office cabs..they don't face traffic

I was sitting in my office cab in the morning when all of a sudden we heard a roaring noise in the sky..it was sukhoi..on its routine flight in the skies of pune trying to wake every night owl and asking them to come and watch what is at display. We were driving close to air force station so could easily see its acrobatics. What a sight!! What a machine! I wondered about its pilot, what a nice experience it would be for him to fly this one of the most sophisticated machine in India. It must be thrilling and adventurous. I remember whenever someone used to ask during our childhood what you want to become when you grow up boy? our favourite answer used to be 'I will become pilot'. I am not sure what children answer these days. May be they will say they will become shooting start like abhinav bindra or a boxer and wrestler like 4 kumars. Well in our cab the sight of sukhoi triggered a reaction by giving people an oppurtunity to start complaing about their job.

Following were the main questions and comments.
What all are we doing?
We are just software engineers living a sedentary life.
We should not have become software engineers.
We stay in a artificial environment in office and sometimes we are not even aware that it is raining outside.
Our routine is so monotonous.We go in the morning and come back evening in a cab.
One person suggested that if you fly a sukhoi then you will not have to face the traffic as our cab was facing. Amazing thought!!

Leaders are produced at Traffic Signals

Infrastructure is a bottleneck ! I have heard and read it thousand times. It has become a cliche, used whenever we discuss problems faced by India. I think all of us agree on this. But one more question arises. Whatever infrastructure we have do we respect it? Take for example Roads. People break traffic rules as often they desire. Some of them do it for shortage of time, some do it to save fuel and some do it because they want to prove themselves smart.I also feel sometimes rules are broken because of lack of awareness and proper level of facilities available.

Every system takes time to evolve and so do i feel for Indian infrastructure. Its only our response and respect to it that its evolution can be done at a faster rate. Today this rate in India is very poor and is unable to keep pace with our population growth. To increase it we need to respect it and response to it in a constructive manner. Traffic jams are commonplace these days. I encounter them more than once a week while commuting to office. What i have observed is, the cause of it many a times is lack of patience and sensitivity towards others. You can find people loosing common sense and coming head on with other from both side without realizing it will lead to a deadlock. Once i was coming to office on bike and was waiting at red signal to go green. Suddenly one auto rickshaw came from behind, went past the red signal without realizing that in doing so one of its wheel passed over my feet. I was fortunate that my foot was firmly on road and it didn't cause any damage.

And to my amazement the driver was looking back at me and shouting for my fault! I could only laugh. What was my fault? I guess my fault was that i was sincerely honoring the rule and keeping all behind me wait. I thought who said we don't produce leaders in India. Just go to any traffic signal you will find a person breaking it and triggering a reaction from others who follow him. Don't we call a person a leader who has followers ?