Sadist Autorickshaw drivers

Auto rickshaw has been a major problem in the city and the culprits are the Drivers. I have designed a solution roughly and am working on it hoping to atleast minimize the issue if not solve it. Refusal to hire and over charging are two of the main issues to be tackled.

A solution should always be one which makes both the parties (passengers and drivers in this case)  happy and not just one sided. Hence it was most important to get auto driver's side of the story too. Speaking to about 40 odd drivers casually, I figured out maybe if we get them extra income every month they would atleast stop overcharging then we can tackle the refusal issue.

Now before I try to do something to get them extra income, I wanted to do a research again. I kept 1000/- a month as bench mark for the research and decided to check with the drivers what they would say

That is where I decided to leave my vehicle back at work place and took an autorickshaw home, on the way asked the driver

Me: If I can get you an additional income of Rs 1000/- every month would u agree not to over charge passengers??


Auto Driver (in an angry tone): Saar, I'm not greedy, keep ur money I believe in hard work, if I cheat or do anything else I know that money will not stay with me.


Me: do not worry boss, it will not be cheating or illegal, as of now just a thought for sake of the argument.


Auto Driver: no saar thank you I'm happy with my hard earned money


End of trip Meter shows 73/- I gave him 100/- asked him 25/- back and our man gives me 10/- back.

Country's pride or shame......??

Every blog I write, anyone come over to debate on it, I know I would be able to defend my ideas. But this is the first time im putting forth my idea to the world which might not be 100% the way it is and may just be a coincidence. If it is a coincidence, I’m not ashamed to apologise and if it is not then this is  matter of shame.

I, like almost every other Indian, am an ardent follower of cricket. Off late after the introduction of commercial format of club cricket like the IPL and Champions League, I have started to hate a few top cricketers. Without naming any of them, I have one big question? Players get injured during an international level tournament, but during IPL and CL all are fit???

Everyone played the world cup, played the IPL and then got injured, needed rest and so on…I’m afraid I have to take names now….Gautam Gambhir, who was at the risk of an injury played the IPL and skipped the next tour of India, did he not feel the strain while the last few matches of IPL? Sachin has the flexibility to choose the tours he will play in…understood he has been playing for long and maybe he needs rest, but when India were battered by England he gets an injury during the one dayers… and is now ready to play in the CL…. I mean WTF is all I can think. There may be reasons beyond my understanding but when Kumble can come out with a broken jaw with the bandage on and play why not give your best when the country needs you and rest when it comes to the club level?? Not only the players I have named there are others also but these being the prominent ones when the country is in need why can’t they skip the personal needs and look into the country’s pride.

The fun in making a fool of yourself....

I act according to the situation; many people say this and do so proudly.

But at the cost of your personality…?

I have been observing my close aids and people I interact with regularly in my life to understand this. Humans, atleast 95% of them are no less than chameleons, changing according to the situation, which is good. But I wonder why change your beliefs too? If you do not believe in something strongly they why even speak about it?  And if you do speak about something, go to the heights in proving it, why go against it some other time?

It this competitive world when all want to emerge out as winners, I wonder at times if we have forgotten that we have our own personality and some things, we believe are good. It’s a shame we have to compromise on who we are just to prove a point to someone. The urge of winning an argument by making a strong point drives us I guess.

My Work Place

A lot of people have been asking me to know where I work, how the place looks like. After I wrote about my work with the cops in the Traffic Management Center. You can read that blog by clicking here.

So here is a pictorial blog.

My work Station

My most important tool 

We hit pondy again…Day 2

Thinking that we did not party late night, I thought atleast I can go and catch the sunrise, but woke up well past sunrise at around 8 am. By the time we could do anyting, I had alcohol in my hands….

After a lazy process of getting ready, we went to have our breakfast and the bread onlets were literally yummy. We also had a cute pup in the restaurant who helped us pass time till we waited for our orders to arrive.

Heading back to the cottage, it was beer time for me and Rajeeth while the others sat and just spoke, giving us company. As this was going on one by one we all got ready to go to downtown Pondy. Lunch in a sea view restaurant, shopping on the streets of pondy and the time was up.