Ladies in Men's coach - Delhi metro

On many cases, ladies end up in the general coach to get seats.

Obviously, they wont be able to claim this reservation in ladies only compartment.

Since, ladies are given a special coach, what is the need for reservation of seats for ladies in general compartment?

An interesting post from http://legalfighter.wordpress.com/2010/12/02/letter-to-delhi-metro-demanding-male-only-coaches/#comment-2466

Letter to Delhi Metro demanding “Male-Only” coaches

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To,
The General Manager
Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Ltd.Metro Bhawan
Fire Brigade Lane, Barakhamba Road,
New Delhi – 110001, India

Sub: Demand for Male-Only coaches in Delhi Metro in wake of violence against men in metro.

Respected Sir/Madam,

National Coalition for Men (NCFM), India is the India division of National Coalition for Men, the oldest men’s rights organization in the United States of America. NCFM, India is responsible for creating awareness about how sex discrimination affects men and boys and is actively involved in lobbying with the various government agencies for issues pertaining to male abuse and men’s rights.

Recently, there have been some disturbing media reports about how innocent men have been beaten up in Delhi Metro on November 26, 2010 and thereafter the incident repeated itself in many places including Gurgaon. And the reason cited for that is that the male passengers had alighted the coaches reserved for women.

It is extremely disturbing to mention here that this is the worst kind of treatment that can be meted out to men in society. And it was not only public bashing of men, but they were also made to squat and humiliated badly. Moreover, media covered this whole gruesome incident of mass male abuse as a BOLD act of Women Empowerment.

This is direct promotion of violence against men and is extremely sad to know that the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) is silent on this issue. While your good office might have many a valid reasons to introduce reservations for women, certain practical problems arising due to the reservation have been overlooked.

The problems being:

1. Despite being awarded the luxury of a reserved coach and reserved seats in non-reserved coaches, most of the time it has been observed that women occupy the general seats as the reserved seats/coaches go empty. This creates a lot of pressure for men to get seats.
2. Secondly many passengers are still not aware of the reservation of coaches and enter reserved coaches inadvertently.
3. More men use the metro during office hours than women.

All the above practical problems are purely administrative in nature and innocent men being bashed up in public, treated worse than criminals and humiliated on media is not something a sane society would tolerate.

Such a treatment against men is downright sexist and anti-human in nature.

Hence, in light of the above incident, NCFM, India demands that:-

1. DMRC must ensure that the male passengers get a safe and secure traveling environment and for that DMRC must provide coaches meant only for men.
2. DMRC must look into this matter and investigate as to why the innocent men were beaten up unnecessarily.
3. DMRC must suspend all security staff on duty on the day of the incident when men were beaten up pending the investigation.
4. DMRC must ensure that information about reservation of coaches is broadcast properly.
5. DMRC must publish a public apology for failing to protect male passengers.

We do hope and believe that DMRC will take positive steps to ensure that men are treated fairly in metros and not subjected to violence for no fault of theirs.

Thanks and Regards

India Liaison Officer
National Coalition for Men, India

Do you read?

"A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read." - Mark Twain

Book Review : The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga

A good read. 

Don't know how time flew with the book and finished It in 2 days.

It’s a critic of the Indian society and is wrote in such a way that a reader from India will feel sad reading it. But, Aravind said in an interview that, just like books of Charles Dickens and other European writers shaped the society of Europe in the 19th century, his book tends to shape the Indian society in this 20th century. 

The book is about a person - Munna/ Balram, a man in darkness of a backward class sweet maker family. The plot is how this person turns out to be an entrepreneur from there. The story is narrated as first person by Munna. He tells about a rooster coop system which pulls back backward people when they try to escape and go into the light.

Balram was driver of Ashok who is a return from US. This social novel also highlight the corrupt Indian society and says India is swallowed in corruption. He says that its a never ending loop. The politician takes money from tax evaders and police take money  from shop owners making the whole society corrupt and the best part is all are happy with it. 

He labels himself as a White Tiger - A once at a time rare species.

As the story unfolds he explains how he cold bloodedly killed his master Ashok and ran with the money which was meant to bribe a minister and turns out to be an entrepreneur.

Most stories will just take you there and stop. But Aravind Adiga goes a step forward and explains how Munna establishes a business in the heart of Bangalore city by giving bribes to police who took the money even when he was on the wanted list for murder and that notice is there in that police station just behind the cop.

He says that his family would have already paid the price for the murder and would have been killed in his village laxmangarh.

For the work, Aravind won the man booker prize in 2008.

Outwit KFC India this season with 15% discount

If you go to KFC during this season,

you will probably get a bill like this.

(take survey, get 15% off)

The purpose of giving you this bill is to make you come again.

To get the 15% discount promised by KFC, you have to follow the following steps as shown in the bill on the side. Also, note that discount is valid only on your next visit. Which just means that you cannot use the 15% discount on the same bill.

To successfully outwit KFC, what you need to do is,

1. Take your family/friends along to KFC.

2. Buy just one CONE ICECREAM priced at Rs. 16/- and get the bill.

3. While your mates discuss the menu, take a survey online and get the survey number using your mobile internet or the wifi available in shopping mall.

4. Place the BIG ORDER and claim the 15% off the same day itself

5. Walk out of the counter as a KING :)

Happy Dining!

Why do this world keep dividing?

Once, 100 people boarded a boat and had quite some time to talk.

During the talking they started taking sides. It started when a statement by a passenger saying "As always you people from the south are not trustworthy".

The group of 100 split into 2. North and south.

Then as the group was moving on, small debates happened in the groups further dividing them into states.

States divided to districts, and districts became religion, religion divided into caste and caste into family.

And finally just 2 people were together.

And, a quarrel broke out and one said "U always think women are inferior to man!"

Why is this country polarised?

Isn't unity in diversity working?

Some people say that India is united only during cricket matches and war? is it after all true?

Then you might end up saying isn't the whole idea of association creating polarisation?

No it isn't and it shouldn't. Associations are meant for keeping the culture of the particular society/group. If such associations and informal groups are not formed, the cultural backgrounds of each and every of our diverse states will be lost. But, make that the only purpose of keeping an association.

One should never say to vote for a candidate for this post just because he is from your state.

One should do favouritism to a person from his state.

Let us look the merit in each of us. Let us ask questions which creates unity rather than divide.

How many humans in this crowd? 

Is google making us stupid? Are we loosing memory?

Is google making us stupid?

Are mobile phones making us forget the numbers you always carried in your memory?

Is facebook diluting the relationships which requires us to stay near a person?

Well there is nothing to worry.

Aristotle and plato used to give questions to their students and their answers they had to experiment/investigate and find by themselves.

Many debate that this is the actually way of teaching.

But, in modern times there is no time to waste on discoveries which are already made.

Similarly there are much better and fruitful things to be done rather than mugging up those numbers or studying full stuffs such that you dont have to access google.

The ambit of what you should know has increased and now even if you dont know exactly what it is, atleast you should know where to find it just the same logic as an 'open book test'.

Thats where google has a hand.

Everything is this world is progressing and life is made much simpler.

The purpose of making like simple is not that you may sit and relax rather it is to invest more time in your dreams and make the world an even better place to dwell.

Keep discovering new things!!