order in chaos

couple of days back i had to go to lower parel. even though others trust my driving skills, i trust my impatience more. so i dont venture there. i always preferred travelling by bus rather than train, yes the chaos of western and central line train always remember to send a shudder down my spine and yet so many millions of bombayites travel in time, day after day, and it does not matter how many new commuters join in this chaos, yet there is place for all. the trains mostly make it on time.

well that day i while coming home took an ST (state transport) bus, she is always known as the older, uncool country cousin of the more urban BEST, though she is still more faster, but in todays world, looks matter too much so she stands a dismal third in bombay.

you know how the tickets look out here, tickets with different denominations printed and conductor has to punch in the boarding and the destination place which is coded in numbers. but this time i saw a ST conductor having a machine similar to the credit card amount punching machine.

i told the conductor that this time you guys have left BEST far behind with this new baby. he at first just smiled
later he came back to me with lots of pride and said, yes we are progressing, and started explaining to me how he had found it initially difficult to learn this new machine as he is 50 year old and had worked already on the old machine for 27 years, but then he believes in being modern helps life.

i guess that is what i admire most about we indians. we learn very fast and even though many are resistant to change, once they see how beneficial it is. we really pick things up fast.

on my way i also say a 60 + man driving a rustic lamby scooter with a tire rubber tied around the body to ensure the scooter from crumbling apart. where else will you see such enterprising people who never believe in giving up and are passionate.....


yes this country is full of chaos, yes each state is radially different from its neighbor, yes there are very few SOPs followed and yet we are rising and shining... so there must be an order somewhere which is allowing all this to happen...

its just that others need more time to figure us out !!