VIZAG matters - Sohan Hatangadi's Blog

How do the Indian Railways #IRCTC ensure that senior citizens always land up in UPPER berths?  Is there a complex set of algorithm that are at work to s***w the elderly? Is there a bunch of evil programmers waiting for old farts like us to book tickets just to enjoy seeing us huff and puff to get to the upper berths? The funny thing is that the earlier you book the more the chance of you getting an upper berth! Then you see a dapper young chap waltzing in and taking the lower berth! Not only that, he boasts that he booked a ticket only a days ago. #Railway #minister are you hearing? Is there a built in bias against the elderly? Is there a hidden policy saying "these buddas get discounts in the railways so let's s***w them by giving them upper berths."

Senior volunteers wanted My article in the Times of India Dated 3 January 2016 In a vast country like India there is always plenty of work to be done. There are farms to be maintained, water to be provided for agriculture and for homes, power to be generated and distributed, children to be educated, people and things to be moved every day, newspapers to be printed, babies to be made and delivered, the sick to be attended, financial services to be provided, politicians to be elected and Arnab has to shout for a couple of hours every night on TV. Plenty of work We have work to do because, we are 1.3 billion of us on a land mass of 2,973,193 square kilometers. We are in dirty crowded villages and teeming dirty crowded cities. We have a humongous 179.6 million folks below the poverty line in our ancient country and that my friend is 20.6% of planet earths poorest. One in four Indians are completely illiterate and Government schools with their “pass-them-anyhow” policy a...