Life at my college could not be described as Hectic its just Hectic and Awesome in so many ways. My classmates who make it even better for as an observer of Human Behaviour you would find each and every types and also each and every stereotype being shattered and i love them all for their uniqueness and their diversity of thoughts.( Not naming the college since i don’t want to make it sound like a marketing article ? was once given a feedback by laj mam) So my college has improved me made me realise so many things that has compelled me to look at life through many different prism. Well i will philosophise on all of this later on. I have met some of the most talented and really nice people at heart here and also thanks to the college and its fieldwork program i have been able to explore various parts of Mumbai, not just the cool hangout places but the real Mumbai with its everyday trials and tribulations. Whether it is the ride to the fieldwork station in a local train or taking an opposite route in the local train to actually get a less crowded train, travelling a bit more than required but loving each and every part of it. This real Mumbai and the experience that i have got in my last year of stay here can safely be said that had i been in any other Management Institute in mumbai I may not have been able to get it
Well the Reason of writing this note was not to exhort the virtues of my college which people around me are bored to death hearing for they would like me to stop my ranting again and again of how good this place is but to narrate a small incident that i witnessed while coming back from the last day of my fieldwork
Well my fieldwork organisation is in Thane and generally i would take a Train while coming back but that day as it was the last day of fieldwork as the semester is coming to an end was late exchanging numbers and niceties since you don’t repeat your fieldwork organisation once you have been there and I have had a very good learning and an overall great treatment from the organisation that i had gone to.
Well to cut a long story short after waiting for 15 minutes i get into a C42 express bus that will take me all the way from Thane to Chembur. Now as I paid the conductor for my Ticket there was a Man who was sitting just in front of me like any other normal passenger everything being usual as it remains during a bus ride. Suddenly I see a man who was sitting in the seats reserved for ladies get up and come towards my direction the bus was not crowded i didn’t pay much attention so he suddenly stops right beside the Man who was sitting right in front of me and starts asking him for money.
Now the Man was intoxicated and he was smelling of the country liquor that he had consumed and the other man to whom the drunk was asking money for was just ignoring him. Now i had seen beggars or even drunks in train asking for money but i have never seen such a scene in a bus so it was kind of new for me. The drunk was constantly pestering him to give him twenty rupees for food or at least the bus ticket etc. So our good Samaritan buys him the bus ticket to Kamraj nagar and this fellow goes and sits back. After two minutes he comes back again to the man sitting in front of me and again starts requesting money and even tells him that he will jump from the bus or get down mid way clearly if he doesn’t give him twenty rupees…….