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Resentment against hike in bus fare mounting in Bhopal

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NK SINGH Though a Govt. directive has frustrated the earlier efforts of the MPSRTC to increase the city bus fares by as much as 300 per cent, the public resent even the 25 per cent hike. It is "totally unjust, uncalled for and arbitrary", this is the consensus that has emerged from an opinion conducted by "Commoner" among a cross-section of politicians, public men, trade union leaders, and last but not least, the common bus travelling public. However, a section of the people held, that an average passenger would not grudge a slight pinche in his pocket provided the MPSRTC toned up its services. But far from being satisfactory, the MPSRTC-run city bus service in the capital is an endless tale of woe. Hours of long waiting, over-crowding people clinging to window panes frequent breakdowns, age-old fleet of buses, unimaginative routes and the attitude of passengers one can be patient only when he is sure to get into the next bus are some of the ills plaguing the city b...
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Glimpses of a Drug Sick Society

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Alia Bhatt in Udta Punjab, a movie on drug addiction

NK SINGH

One of the maladies of affluent nations has reached India -- the menace of drug addiction. A large number of young men, particularly university students in Punjab, are said to be taking barbiturates, palmed off as sex stimulants by unscrupulous chemists.

The disease is confined not only to men, but also the women have fallen prey. Young people find it cheaper than taking hard liquor. Some barbiturates have the same effect as whiskey. Some of the hardened addicts, who were not satisfied with the kick obtained from barbiturates, take a pinch of opium with it.

Excerpts from The Searchlight 21 March 1970




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