Religious Hyprocrites
21.07.2009
The other day, I got late to office, just like any other day. However, I got so late this time that the train already started moving. I couldn’t afford to get late yet again, so I ran and caught a coach. I realized that in hurry, I had got into second class compartment (for those who don’t know about Mumbai Local trains, it has four compartments: 2nd class general, 1st class general, 2nd class ladies only, first class ladies only. Sometimes there are some complimentary coaches for senior citizens or disabled people. The difference between 2nd class and 1st class is just that 1st class costs a bit more than 2nd class, so it is less crowded.) The coach was densely crowded and was obviously supposed to be stuffed more with every passing station. Moving a finger was too big a deal, I had hard time even breathing there, obviously I didn’t get a seat.
But WOW, to my surprise, I was in coach with these religious people which I didn’t realize until they started playing their rhymes. The prayers they sung were so crude in sound, their own voices so bad, and the instruments they used were only creating noise pollution, and not any music. I have no idea why they do so? They think they are pleasing their God by adding discomfort to the lives of other people traveling in the same coach. I looked around and realized that I wasn’t the only person earning a headache from their prayers. By the time I reached my destination, for the first time in my life, I had to take a tablet to relieve my headache.
I had been wondering why does this not happen in 1st class coach. I guess that is because maybe the people traveling in 1st class have better things to do than to annoy other people, or maybe they don’t have so much time to waste just as such, or maybe they have better understanding of God and prayers. One thing of which am sure is why these religious hypocrites travel in 2nd class. They travel in 2nd class because there is no 3rd class as yet.
