Metro Physics, Chapter 1: “Human Pendulums”

Balancing Precariously

I said it before and I will say it again, I am on my way to Nobel Prize greatness as I slowly unravel the Physics that drives the Delhi Metro. Today, I present to you a phenomenon that not even the most regular Delhi Metro riders must have noticed or bothered to think about. I call this the “Human Pendulum” or “Metro Oscillations”. This spectacle is witnessed only during the peak hours, i.e. when the Delhi Metro platforms are literally spilling over with people.

Changing Tracks: Hustling it like Bestylish.com

I realize that this blog was supposed to be Metro centric but I just could not resist the temptation to share with you guys how bestylish.com is currently using and hustling online shoppers like me on 15 August 2012. For starters, they launched an aggressive email campaign, claiming to offer nearly 80% discount. Further, this section actually had a pretty decent collection. However, as soon as I started choosing, combining and checking-out after spending about 30 mins, the site repeatedly started stating

She Ain’t No Blonde or Princess, She’s Just Rajouri!

This is my first of submissions that will focus upon the Metro typecasts I have come across. I have a slightly cynical outlook and thus, I am going to begin with a typical kind of Delhi Metro passenger that needs a serious reality check—I call “it” the “Rajouri Types” and this is particularly applicable to the women who board the metro from the Rajouri Garden Metro Station and the nearby areas. You must be wondering what could be so despicable about such ladies. Well, there is nothing wrong with them except for the fact they are highly prone to thinking that they belong to an elite class that should be treated superiorly within the Delhi Metro!!

Decoding the Phenomenon: Metro Sleep

I guess this discovery should get me nominated into the league of folks who have contributed significantly to deciphering the human behavior or more precisely the human sleep patterns. At a time, when most leading magazines too have run out of ideas and cannot write anything new about sleep, sleeping habits, sleeping problems, etc. I have unearthed a new kind of sleep! Yes, this might surprise you but keeping my observant senses in the switch-on mode has finally yielded results. I have titled my discovery as the “Metro Sleep”. This kind of sleep is