| Address: North 24 Parganas, West Bengal |
Yesterday, at about 11 AM, I went to reserve a ticket (Train No. & Name: 12338; Shantiniketan Express (Bolpur-Howrah); Date of Journey: 25/10/2012; Class: ACC; No. of Seats – 2) at the Dum Dum Cantonment Computerized Railway Ticket Reservation counter (Counter No. 5). Regretfully saying that I left the address slot blank in the application form. At the ticket wicket the reservation clerk rudely said, "যাও! ঠিক করে ফিলআপ করে এসো" (“Go and fill it up completely!”). She was so furious that she crossed the boundary of etiquette ("এসো”). In addition, she went coarse against another passenger craving for a requisition form.
I did not say anything as I was mistaken. I filled in the form, stood in the queue, and went down to the waiting list. She asked, "নেবে?" (“Would you like?”). I said, “No, thanks”.
Kindly request her to say anything in a down and respectable tone unless a passenger or anyone else behaves wrongly. Our mother tongue, Bengali, is replete with respectable utterances like “যান, আসুন, নেবেন?” etc. Even the ways of saying "যাও, এসো, নেবে?" should carry the minimum bilabial honour. These are the primordial features of behaviour that a human being should walk with from womb to tomb.
Yours faithfully,
Dibakar Sarkar
Aug 13, 2020
Complaint marked as Resolved