the whole enchilada!

I find shatabdis totally frustrating. Granted, they make complete sense for these one day trips and save you a lot in terms of time and money but sitting at one place for 4-5 hours at a stretch is not something I look forward to. I could get up and move around but I am a little paranoid when it comes to leaving my belongings under someone else’s care. I am already prone to losing things/having things stolen / dropping things and just leaving things around and having them picked up is not something I would want to add to the list. So I caught the morning shatabdi to Ludhiana and was planning to stay there for a day. But surprisingly I got done the very same day and decided to leave for Delhi. Getting a shatabdi was impossible so I decided to just take a general ticket and get on any train that would go to Delhi. I met a TT at the station who was very helpful and told me to get on some train he called “Flying”. The train was already at the station and because it was unbelievably hot and...

Just when I thought I’d left all the deceitful and the manipulative and the calculative and the cunning and the bad bad people of the world behind and finally entered a happy place where people were genuinely nice and treated each other with respect and consideration, I came across another asshole and almost got my brain fucked over again. I mean what is it with men? Why is that all they want to do is get women laid. I genuinely do not understand the fixation men have with sex. Seriously, what is the big deal?! I am actually not pissed off with the guy in question. I am pissed off with the fact that I almost started believing the words which come out of a mans mouth AGAIN. I am not a feminist and I hate categorizing people into such broad categories. But when I come across such people over and over again I am compelled to make such generalizations. You cannot as much as let your guard down for 10 minutes these days. So much for all “ happy thoughts ” and “ happy place s”. I am back to...