If someone gives you something nice, don't fucking ruin it.


Tejas Express, which was named as an " Aeroplane moving on the ground " by the Central Railway Ministry, boasts of amenities such as LED screens attached to seats, WiFi, CCTV cameras, and tea/coffee vending machine. Capable of running at 200 kmph, the train covers the 552-km Mumbai-Goa journey within nine hours.

Keeping aside the debate that whether these facilities really exist’s on the train which is all together a different issue, we would like to focus on the issue that whether we Indians deserve such kind of facility and why no one cares about the public property.

The first trip of Tejas Express, high-speed train started off from Mumbai to Goa with a blast but the train came back with fewer headphones, damaged infotainment screens and waste all over the train. The train started off from Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus on Monday and returned from Goa on Tuesday.

Although the railway official's had expected and told earlier that these things would happen but the extent of damage has left them shocked. They have now appealed to the passengers to do not make any damage to this rich amenities filled public property.

At least 12 of the high-quality headphones provided for the infotainment screens are missing, said the railway sources. Some screens were found scratched and some windows where broken too.

Capable of running at the speed of 200 kmph, the Tejas Express has several unique features such as automatic doors, 9-inch infotainment screens for each seat, tea-coffee vending machines, vacuum bio-toilets, touch-free water taps in toilet and secured gangway.

A passenger, who traveled on the train the second day, said the train was not properly cleaned. “Toilets too were unclean. Attendants were ignorant. The food was not as good as during the inaugural run,” he said.

It's a service for the people that you're destroying, and it's not exactly a one-off incident either. Our country has a long history of fucking up good things just because it's new and it looks pretty.

During the monsoon — between June 10 and October 31 — it will be operated thrice in a week— Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.

And as with all good things put in the public space in India, it got shit on it after its first ride. Some bored folks probably threw rocks and damaged the glass on the windows of the train, feeling a sense of pointless achievement in the whole thing.

It really makes you wonder, do we deserve anything nice? What's the point, when some pervert is obviously going to bend, break and spit on not just the thing, but our hope for development itself as a whole. We can't be so stupid about our own condition. I mean it's easy, just follow one rule - If someone gives you something nice, don't fucking ruin it.

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