Lalu's Train ?
TTR : Can you show me your Ticket please?
A group of Biharis : Ticket..what is that?
TTR : Dint you buy one for travelling from you place to here.
Some one from the group: No.Why should we.After all we are travelling by our Lalu's train.
If you thought this was a joke aimed at people from Bihar, then you are wrong.
Looks like a group of 500 Biharis travelled by train from Bihar to Chennai and then to Rameshwaram.But not even one soul bothered to purchase a ticket.Yeah..they have travelled all the way ticketless.The reply from a woman when questioned by the authorities here "How could you ask us for tickets when we have travelled in our own Lalu’s train?". :-)
Also they have paid a penalty of a meagre 4000 rupees and the loss is estimated to be around 1.5 lacs.
Read the whole news here (requires registration).
I have heard a lots of news about ticketless travel within Bihar, but nothing like this till now.
"aaahhaahhh..oru kroupa thaanya alayaraanga"
PS: I feel sorry for the Railway authorities who questioned these people.
A group of Biharis : Ticket..what is that?
TTR : Dint you buy one for travelling from you place to here.
Some one from the group: No.Why should we.After all we are travelling by our Lalu's train.
If you thought this was a joke aimed at people from Bihar, then you are wrong.
Looks like a group of 500 Biharis travelled by train from Bihar to Chennai and then to Rameshwaram.But not even one soul bothered to purchase a ticket.Yeah..they have travelled all the way ticketless.The reply from a woman when questioned by the authorities here "How could you ask us for tickets when we have travelled in our own Lalu’s train?". :-)
Also they have paid a penalty of a meagre 4000 rupees and the loss is estimated to be around 1.5 lacs.
Read the whole news here (requires registration).
I have heard a lots of news about ticketless travel within Bihar, but nothing like this till now.
"aaahhaahhh..oru kroupa thaanya alayaraanga"
PS: I feel sorry for the Railway authorities who questioned these people.
posted by srivat at 11:42 PM
4 Comments:
manickam padathula kalyanathukku pora madhiri kelambi iruppaanga pola...
vitta driver compartment-la kooda povaanga
Bala,
There was also a photo of the group in the paper..nee solra mathiri thaan therinjithu :-)
I actually met one such crowd !! Chennai Mail from Bangalore to Chennai ..... April 7th night .... S8 reserved comparment .... The lights were just then switched on and the doors opened .... I do not know when the group came in or how long they were sitting there ..... In the regular 6 person coupe (can you call it that ???), there were about 12 people !!! Each with a rustic, innocent face which suggested that of a "Bihari" ... an entire family .... 3 generations !!! None of them spoke English ..... They would not even acknowledge when spoken !!! Seemingly defiant as if the concept of "tickets" were introduced in India only in forenoon of that day and it is ridiculous to expect them to have it by that very evening !!!
The actual occupants of that coupe had a tough time explaining things to them and coax them to move to the unreserved coaches @ the end of the train ...
Quite often, I hear that the situation is worse in North India ... Can anybody in this group approve / disapprove of this generalisation ?!?
WHEW !!!
Naveenan,
I'm not sure about the whole of North India, But Bihar yes.
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