Picture this:
You had a stressful day at office, while retuning home you notice traffic is at its prime and some where your bike stops. You check and come to know you’re out of petrol. The nearest petrol pump is a KM away, you start pushing the bike to the pump and midway it starts to rain… now put this entire scenario in Kolkata. Get it… that was what I went through yesterday. The feeling when vehicles cross you spraying the mud water while you crawl on that very road with your boots is something you should not witness…
First things first Kolkata has petrol pumps in amazing awkward places, if you spot one chances are there will be five more in the vicinity but if can’t find one… it means on a radius of 2 Kms there is none and mind you Kolkata has more vehicles than the number of people it could sustain.
But this post is not about the traffic or road situation in Kolkata but how heart warming the people of Kolkata are… today if anything is precious it is compared to petrol, when you are out of it you know you have to reach that petrol pump and there’s no other way. Generally people don’t even bother looking at someone pushing a bike through the side of the road especially when you are returning home from office and its raining but I was actually offered petrol by two people. Yes, offering petrol is something honestly even I may not have done to a stranger but here I was a stranger in the city being offered fuel so costly and dear fuel by a complete stranger. On a highway in the dark of the night you may ay this could be expected but not in the city.
This small incident explains that humanity is still not dead and even if one does not wear those Being Human T-shirts they still have it in them. In my case since the petrol pump was few meters away I did not require the help, but it was still a very kind gesture and I salute the City of Joy for keeping the heart alive!!
You had a stressful day at office, while retuning home you notice traffic is at its prime and some where your bike stops. You check and come to know you’re out of petrol. The nearest petrol pump is a KM away, you start pushing the bike to the pump and midway it starts to rain… now put this entire scenario in Kolkata. Get it… that was what I went through yesterday. The feeling when vehicles cross you spraying the mud water while you crawl on that very road with your boots is something you should not witness…
First things first Kolkata has petrol pumps in amazing awkward places, if you spot one chances are there will be five more in the vicinity but if can’t find one… it means on a radius of 2 Kms there is none and mind you Kolkata has more vehicles than the number of people it could sustain.
But this post is not about the traffic or road situation in Kolkata but how heart warming the people of Kolkata are… today if anything is precious it is compared to petrol, when you are out of it you know you have to reach that petrol pump and there’s no other way. Generally people don’t even bother looking at someone pushing a bike through the side of the road especially when you are returning home from office and its raining but I was actually offered petrol by two people. Yes, offering petrol is something honestly even I may not have done to a stranger but here I was a stranger in the city being offered fuel so costly and dear fuel by a complete stranger. On a highway in the dark of the night you may ay this could be expected but not in the city.
This small incident explains that humanity is still not dead and even if one does not wear those Being Human T-shirts they still have it in them. In my case since the petrol pump was few meters away I did not require the help, but it was still a very kind gesture and I salute the City of Joy for keeping the heart alive!!
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