Showing posts with label uttarpradesh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label uttarpradesh. Show all posts

Friday, March 29, 2013

Sad Bus Travel

Feel stupid, feel naked, feel annoyed. And I'm paying 1200 bucks for this bouquet of negative emotions. Thanks UPSRTC, and thanks Delhi.
So it happens, add I just discovered enroute a bus journey to Delhi (in a Volvo, which is supposed to be the luxury way to bus travel, and costs thrice or more than the normal ticket) that the Delhi rape incident has affected our bus travel. Apparently, that crime inside a moving bus prompted the authorities to reach a decision to remove curtains from all buses - this far I'm only certain of the UPSRTC doing it. So now the passenger who pays a premium travels like a mannequin on display for all the traffic to see. Way to go.
Hope this stops all rape, especially since a curtained-moving-bus makes for the scene of crime for a majority of the rapes in or country... yeah?

So, traveling in luxury feels humiliating now. I guess someone is left happy.

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Displacement diaries: Flooding in Moradabad

1255. +150km. Moradabad (or somewhere around).
Road closed, against all hope, as flood waters haven't yet receded. I was in realization of this fact from the start of my journey. Thought its been dry weather in the past 2 or 3 days, water still disrupts traffic. After leaving the Moradabad bypass, where panoramic scenes of flood were evident, and the residents had resettled along the road and began selling whatever farm produce they could make away with, I met with greater traffic that consisted mainly of the locals, and the hopefuls. I moved parallel to about 5km-long queue of trucks on a broken, bumpy road, before being turned back by the Moradabad police lounging on plastic chairs at a makeshift barrier. They tell me to take a cut from Dalpatpur (4km back), head to Tanda, then Rampur, then to Nainital, which would be another 40-50km.

Sunday, August 21, 2011

U.P. highway nightmare

सडकें जनसमुदाय को स्वतन्त्र और आसान गमन की सुविधा प्रदान करती है| परन्तु यू.पी. में सड़कों का नेटवर्क उनके लिए सुविधा है जिनको बन्दूक का लायसेंस लिए बिना दूसरों को मारने की ख्वाहिश है|
सिर्फ 90km, और यू.पी. की सडकों पर मेरी फट चुकी है| इन दो घंटों में मुझे कई लोगों ने मार डालने की कोशिश की| मैं आगबबूला तो हूँ किन्तु एक तरह से मैं इसे यू.पी. के अपनापन जताने की निशानी देखता हूँ |