I travel by public transport; it helps me to know more about the place and I get to meet people and learn new things. Most of the time people who work on public transportation are helpful, unless they are irritated by the public or talk rudely. I was travelling on the bus one evening as usual and the bus was not too crowded. Late in the evenings people in inebriate condition get onto the bus creating nuisance to the commuters and to the bus driver and conductor as well (I still don’t understand why this has been tolerated). Many watch this as a big tamasha and don’t interfere and if one interferes the person as well becomes the part of it. Anyways I am not going into the debate, and this is also not a discussion on that topic here.

Lady conductor who was talking to everyone with gentle voice encountered with the person in inebriate condition but she was talking to him very gently. But that person started using very inappropriate language and started touching her in an inappropriate way. Despite many people speaking to him, he didn’t mend his ways. In the same route, there are two police stations nearby bust stops. When the bus reached the first police station I saw the totally different shade in the conductor. She stopped the bus and dragged the guy by holding the collar and handed him over to the police. Few good Samaritan passengers went along with her to make the case strong. After watching several cases where the driver and the conductor face these kinds of people. I saluted the conductor for taking such steps, instead of suffering silently.