The Public Diary

CAUTION: People who are yet to travel in a CTU bus may not relate to it! Chandigarh is known for being a well organized and planned city. However, it has its own flaws. Major problem faced by its citizens is traffic congestion. To tackle it, Chandigarh Transport Undertaking (CTU) has introduced long low floor buses to carry maximum passengers. And I mean this word ‘maximum’ literally. Administrators need to travel in CTU Bus for one day to get a reality check.           This is how it looks like As a regular college-going person, I am well acquainted with the conditions of these buses. While these buses may look beautiful to outsiders, feelings of the travelers are completely different. No matter how good your day has started, you will be annoyed as soon as you find that your bus is late than the scheduled time (Late arrival of bus has now been considered ‘usual’). This thing, sometimes, prove out to be good when you are late and still able to b...

Social Networking Sites (+ Whatsapp) is the second name of Internet for many people. People, nowadays, get their internet plans activated to use SNSs only. However, we can’t deny the fact that the range of internet is much, much larger than of SNSs. “Are you on Facebook ?” or “Do you have Whatsapp in your (smart) phone?” These are the questions that the newly-became-friends ask each other. And if the answer is in affirmative then they get added in each other’s friend list. That is a different thing if they, afterwards, do not converse with each other online and it just becomes a medium to increase number of friends. Then, like everything has pros and cons, SNSs too have some pros. As the founder and CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg claims “To make this world more open and connected place”; he has been pretty successful in it. Now that is a different thing if this connection is more applicable on unknown people. Once, a childhood friend of mine – whose only nick ...