10 most irritating things in Indian Railways

Here are the 10 most irritating things in Indian Railway

1. Putting shoes on fan- Does it look like a shoes wardrobe. A fan, circle in shape with blades, keeping people cool and a wardrobe made for keeping clothes and shoes, I mean how does these two things looks similar. People will climb up to the upper birth, will open their shoes and will put it on the fan like this is the best place to keep shoes.

2. Making train a kitchen- Ok I can understand that some people are food maniac but there is a level for anything. Cutting onion, carrot, making salad, eating mango without any knife and plate, I mean why don’t you start a masterchef at train or you can bring your induction cooktop and just start cooking in the train. You will get fresh and homemade food at train doesn’t matter how others will suffer.

3. Asking to wake up from reserved seats- Ok let me explain.  I searched on net and found 100 seats available in Purshottam exp. I went to the ticket counter, filled the form , paid the money and got a reserved seat which will be valid till the destination arrival date. A reserved seat means reserved for the whole journey, doesn’t matter it’s day or night then why do most of the people will wake you up after night saying ‘Uth ja yaar din me bhi soyega kya’ and these people are WT(without ticket).

4.Chinese mobile and speakers- Although it is common at every place but the most irritating time is in train. I can understand that you have bought a product of china which is devouring the mobile market of national companies which is directly affecting the economy of our country and even after knowing that this product will not last longer than AAP, you have bought it in just 2,000 rupees with features like triple speakers, voice recognition, eye recognition, face recognition, motion sensor, projector, 3D, etc but still keep it to yourself. Keeping it in your pocket and playing it on the full volume irritates everyone.

5. Chart prepared with 1 Waiting List- Luck is not on your side and if this happens with you, you just feel like dying. Some experts in India can even calculate whether your seat will get confirmed or not by knowing the no. of waiting list and days left for journey, relying on which people pay for waiting list and keep checking the PNR status till the last date and then this happens.

6. Toilets- Most of the time I travel in train, I try to drink and eat as much less as I can, not because I don’t feel like eating. It is just because I don’t wanna even pass from the train toilets. Most of the people don’t flush it, will shit in all the places instead of the hole made in commode and it stinks like a rotten pile of pigs.

7.Let them pass- It happens with most of the trains. My train will stop at an unknown place and we will be waiting so that the other trains can pass. I mean why? They haven’t paid more for reaching their destination on time. I can understand if it is Rajdhani or Satabdi but in other cases it’s not good. At those moment, I just want to take a stick and stand in front of those trains and shout “YOU SHALL NOT PASS”

8. Food- They work hard to make it taste pathetic or it’s just their way? Pantry car of trains are the worst place to eat. They will charge like a 5 star and will serve foods not for humans.  I don’t have the problem with the money because I can understand that you are providing food at fast moving train with thousands of passengers but then you need to serve not even tasty but eatable food.

9.Middle birth- It’s just like a nightmare for everyone. Railway should fine everyone traveling without ticket with a fine of 10,000 rupees and whenever the person will reserve a ticket, he will not get anything else than the middle birth. I think then most of the people will start buying tickets. You can’t sleep, you can’t eat, you can’t rest. Your life is dependent on the person below you, on the lower birth.

10. Family and you alone- Most of the times when I travel alone, I have exchanged my seats just because a family is there. Once I exchanged three seats just because of families and when the TT came I explained to him “This is not my seat, the person on this seat exchanged it with my seat S2-33 which is also not my seat because that seat was exchanged by another one and so on’

10 REASONS TO WHY BOLLWYOOD IS LACKING BEHIND

Following are the 10 reasons because of which Bollywood is lacking behind

1. Stardom over acting- If you are a son or daughter of a very famous actor then you don’t need to act. It doesn’t mean that all of them are bad, actors like Hritik Roshan and Ranbir Kapoor have proved themselves but still in Bollywood, stardom is preferred over acting. If a director gets a script, producer and all other things then he will start looking up for those actors who have the highest market value, without thinking about the character. Think about the character and search for the best one instead of going for market value of actors. Some movies like Gangs of Waseypur have proved this theory that a movie is not based on stardom but on script, plot and all other necessary things which you actually require to make a good movie.

2. Movies for the market- Now directors are making movie for market not for quality and respect of a good director. If audience is accepting a hero in police role with some fight scenes then the director would be ready to make same kind of 6 to 7 movies with the same actor because it will be sure shot ticket of crossing 200 crore on Box Office. They don’t realize that the day you start working on your passion for others, your outcome gets affected by the fear of result.

3. Budget and Box Office- Now a days it looks like that movie are not being made for awards, appraisal, , message but for crossing 200 crore. This 200 crore has become very popular in Bollywood.  Before the release of the movie, most of the directors and actors start saying “We hope to cross 200 crore” but with some recent examples it has been proved that crossing 200 crore doesn’t assures the quality of movie. Movies with rubbish script, acting and plot can  even cross 200 crore. If your movie will be good it will earn for sure and even if not 200 crore but the appraisal which you will get not only from India but from outside also will worth more than those 200 crore which you will use in making another shitty movie.

4. Sequels- Most of the Bollywood sequels have resulted in a very devastating situation.  Sequels are also made in Hollywood and they are as good as the first one but in Bollywood directors try to take a secure path and an attempt to copy the first part results very bad. According to me sequels are like flowing river which can be divided into different parts. You can’t have the same flow and waves of water of the previous part of the water flow but still it flows smoothly because the waves and flow are different at each part of a river but they are well connected which results in continuity. But many Bollywood directors think that “ Let's do what we did in the first part because first part was hit and we can’t take risk”.

5.Love story- The relation of love story and Indian audience is like wallet and money. Indian audience can devour love stories like anything. Whether it is novels or movies, I think an average Indian can go through more than 1009.5 love stories a day ( point five because it will be only half part of the story  and its sequel will be made on the next day). There are many other interesting and innovative themes on which movies can be made but no. We love love stories and will die with it. Putting a love story in every movie has become a necessity. It looks like a rule “Love story Act  1992- If any movie will be found without a pathetic love story, all the persons related to the movie will be fined under the Love Story Act-1992”

6. Items songs- According to me Items songs make a movie pathetic. Whenever I hear that this movie is having an item song, my perception about that movie starts falling towards the negative side. Putting a famous heroin in an item song with meaningless lyrics and people dancing at the back like anything.  I think before making a movie, the item song is decided.

7. Not out of the box. Directors are very much frightened now (not all). They want a script which will not make losses, they want a star cast which will bring people to theaters, they don’t want to get out of their comfort zones because it makes more than 200 crore for them. Most of the movies in Bollywood revolve around the same point. Movies like SHAHID, KITES, GUZARISH, IQBAL have proved that going out of the box is the best way for innovation and quality.

8. Copying- Bollywood is a master at it. Whether it’s a song, script or scene, they are a master at showing but why don’t they realize that their movie is not going to be on a cd in a single room. It will be available to be seen by anyone and also for those from whom you have copied. It will also be seen by the people who are big fans of the original work but who cares. If my copied movie will give me money I will shout it in front of the whole world and will not have a single drop of shame.

9. Fight scenes- Which was the last fighting scene in Bollywood which gave you goose bumps. I don’t remember any.  I have seen people laughing at most of the fight scenes in Bollywood. Fighting scene in Bollywood is all about heroism which ignores basic rules of physics, graphics, reality and many other things.

10. Business- Bollywood has become a business with investors expecting maximum return by using any way possible.

NOT IN FRONT OF A GUITARIST

When you meet a guitarist, you must be asking many questions and showing many of your desires and dreams but do you know those 10 things which you shouldn’t say in front of a guitarist?

Well here are they(10 things which a guitarist hates most)-

1. “Ek do tune sikha de yaar”

Dude you are not holding a glass of mango juice and asking for some more crushed cashew on the top, it’s a guitar which you need to learn and practice first. If it was so easy to learn those “ek do tune”, then everyone would have been a guitarist. I am not saying it’s very difficult or not your cup of tea but then…. Just keep your mouth shut and better not request these type of things

2.  “Kitne time lag jayega sikhne me?”

Are you buying a “speak English in 30 days book” or going to cook BHAJIA? Different people have different grasping power and way of practicing and it all depends on it. And at till which level you want to learn because there is no end to it. You can keep on learning new things in your guitar for your lifetime and still something would be missing. So there is no syllabus and time limit for learning guitar.

3. “Kuch baja ke suna de”

Being a guitarist I seriously go numb when people ask this to me. I know people who ask something like this expect some magic to come out of the guitar which will blow away their mind but that doesn’t happen and specially when you are a bollywood freak and don’t listen to real music. So don’t embarrass a guitarist by such requests.

4. “Mera bhi bada saukh tha guitar sikhne ka”

Saukh badi cheez hai but not in this case. 90 % of the people have such type of fantasize which end up with a grubby guitar in the corner of your room.  If you were having such dreams then what happened? You lost your hands under the train, or you lost your fingers when typing?  No, you just thought about it and left it like all the 100 things you plan to do in a day and end up sleeping for the whole day.

5. “Ladkiya to khub patayi hongi guitar se”

I didn’t hear anywhere an offer like “Buy one guitar and get an already impressed girl free’. I know many girls like guitar but then what? So does boys. Don’t even dare to ask such type of questions which will make you look like a fool and typical #$%@.

6. “Ye string ko chune se bajta hai ya dusra haath bhi lagana padta hai”

Are you kidding me? Are you blind or just trying to be? You mean to say all the guitarist play with their one hand and use other hand just for show off. Oh my god. It’s like asking a footballer, do you play with both of your legs? No he plays with his one leg and uses other to clean his ears. Lolz.

7. “Kuch atif ka suna do”

If you will stab a guitarist, he will still be thankful to you instead of this request. I know this common perception of Atif Aslam and guitar but for real musicians it’s like Tushar Kapoor and acting, yes I am very serious.

8. “Tumhara tuntuna kaha hai”

Seriously? Tuntuna? Ohk, then you are checking a guitarist’s patience and it is too short then you are in trouble my friend. It is called as a guitar, it has been given a name so that people can call it by the name. Are you still just trying to understand what I am telling? If yes then you are inviting your death.

9. “Mai bhi sochta hoon band bana loo”

It’s not like making a Facebook account. It’s a band which needs co-ordination, brotherhood, mutual understanding, common sense of music and many more things. You need to be a good musician on individual level first then only you can form a band.

10. “Mere ghar pe bhi ek guitar hai”

Ohk, it’s not surprising. These days, having a guitar in your room is like having potatoes in your kitchen. But potatoes will be used if you will make Kashmiri dam aloo and guitar will be used if you will play it. So you are smart enough to understand it.  

A TEA STALL AND ITS DIFFERENT USES

Tea stall, every village, every city has a tea stall. Whether it’s a hut or a shop, there is a tea stall in every part of our country. Different states have different types of tea stall and same is the case with prices. Talking about U.P, BIHAR and JHARKHAND, there people prefer tea in PYALA and the common rate is Rs. 3.  In these areas, tea stall opens early in the morning, sometimes even at 3 AM. Tea stalls near railway station or bus stand are open 24/7. In Punjab, New Delhi, tea comes in a glass of Rs.5 which is obviously a huge quantity for most of the people from east INDIA.

Now talking about the tea stall, it looks like a simple unorganized shop. People pay money, they buy a cup of tea and then move on but if you look at tea stalls from different point of view, it will look like an unorganized parliament, hub of information for police, meeting hall for many, many serious decisions about life are also taken on these tea stall.

So in this post I have mentioned different uses of tea stalls-

Unorganized Parliament- The relation of a cup of tea and politics is very strong. Newspaper, tea and politics are said to be the strongest bonds. If u haven’t heard or been in a political decision on a tea stall then you must be living in some other world. Early in the morning, people will be discussing on some agenda by looking at an article of a newspaper or they will be giving their own views.  I don’t know about the rest of the world but in India, people take politics as their own family issue. They will fight upon it, raise their voice and sometimes these types of discussions get violent also. But with a cup of tea and some rich political minds, these discussions goes on for many hours and the tea stall owner adds masala by subscribing to a newspaper, putting news channel on his small tv on the stall or by just turning on the radio.

Hub of information- You must have seen in most of the movies and serials that whenever the police, CBI need some information, they send their men to the tea stall owner. They will stand facing each other and will pretend like no one is noticing them, dude, he is a tea stall owner selling tea at the back of his table, you are good looking man in formals with a mustache and you are facing each other so no one will think you as gay couple, you must be talking something important and everyone knows this. The tea stall owner knows about everybody and he also knows what is happening in which gang. They are also known as “KHABRI”.

Decisions of life- If you are taking tea stalls easily then you are blindfolded my friend. Many people when get frustrated, want to meet someone, discuss something, take decision, then they call their friends or mentor at the tea stall. Even at such a crowded place, they feel very comfortable to talk about all the problems they are facing in life. The first sip of tea makes them forget everything and allow them to express their feeling in a much better way. I have seen many marriage decisions, carrier decisions, and investment decisions being taken on tea stall.

Sutta point- Yes most of the tea stall acts as a sutta point. Relation of tea and a sutta is also very strong. Most of the employees and students call these tea stalls as sutta point. When they lit the cigarette, smoke it and the take a sip of tea, it feels like heaven for them.  Most of them sell the cigarette under their table and have a banner “SMOKING IS INJURIOUS TO HEALTH. TOBACCO AND CIGARETTE IS NOT ALLOWED TO BE SOLD ANYONE UNDER 18 YEAR” and just after that a kid in grubby banyan and half pant with tangled hairs will ask for a flake liberty and the tea stall owner will give it to him with a smile. It’s same like we pee at the places where it is written “YAHA PESAAB KARNA MANA HAI”.