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The Insensitive Indian Shocked!/Amazed?.....by the title. Perhaps you should not. The reason I am saying this is because in everyday life we may come across various instances where we may find several annoying fellowmen whom we find very hard to resist, ignore them and babble out few cuss words and move on. More importantly we spell out some famous one liner like,” this is why our condition is so pathetic”, “nobody can reform this country”, and so on….. But the situation changes as soon as we are on the receiving end. Let us take an instance for example. Shobha, a lady from Mumbai, is travelling with her family in an unreserved/ general compartment in a train as she was not able to get a reservation. Her family comprises her husband Mr. Mehta and her 8 year old daughter Reeni. She took the train from Mumbai and captured a full lower berth with standard occupancy of four. As the rush was less, they travelled very comfortably for about four stoppages, then suddenly Shobha re