Students freak out

On a busy day when the place was buzzing with activity, a group of students joined to celebrate ‘Bus’ day, a mad idea in vogue only in Madras. The students hijacked the bus, forced the inmates to hop out, climbed over the roof and started dancing, singing all in presence of the police personnel. The driver of the bus was threatened at pen point not to accelerate. The traffic became haywire and came to standstill; Office goers, school kids, ambulance services, senior citizens were all at their mercy. I came to know that they were from nearby ‘Pachaiyappa college’ an institution dedicated for graduating rowdies. Only couple of days ago, these students joined their professors for a protest against the proposed metro station near their vicinity, as they feared destruction of green cover which they claim, are used for studying (!)

The ‘bus day’ is basically a thank giving day for the MTC buses which these students use free of cost to woo women, rag/tease people and do all kind of rubbish in the course of their graduation. In Karnataka the bus day is celebrated to encourage people to take public transportation, but here in Chennai, in the name of thanksgiving the seats of the buses are torn & window panes are broken, to give the loss making a MTC a real run for their money. ‘Your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins’ is a famous quote. The nose cut and the bleeding mouth due to this barbaric act is nothing but the blow to this democracy.