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BEST should offer new services to their passengers: replace some of the seats with recliners or even better, foldable beds. With the recent hike in fares, its the least they can offer. As it is the traffic conditions of today translate to buses (along with anything else with wheels) staying stationary much longer than moving. All this time spent staying still can be effectively used by passengers by catching up on lost sleep. Seeing as today's bus drivers sport bluetooth headsets, surely BEST is doing something right. It's time to show their gratitude to us laymen.

The 11th floor view of serpentine lines of vehicles on roads and flyovers is gratifying indeed. Watching hundreds of stressed school, college, and office-going stooges cramped together surrounded by heat-retaining concrete whilst sitting on a window facing chair in an air-conditioned room watching the sunlight bounce off the window at 10 a.m. Evil bliss!

The eternal metro, flyover, sky-walk construction and pothole filling activities have left us all incapacitated for the time being. A few others, like the mongrel below, seem thankful for such events, courtesy the cooling modern 'lair' provided.

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With the Mumbai roads, everything has to happen at the same time. The Metro construction, skywalk constructions, detours during heavy rains, and incessant honking by bikers and car drivers who think sound waves help facilitate smooth traffic movement. Travelling to work is a saga every single day, with sufficient new stories and scripts observed daily to empower 3 television series.

The purpose of skywalks is to eliminate pedestrians from the roads, considering 'footpaths' technically don't exist anymore. They're encroached by shops, tapris, and now, serve as an alternate route for 2-wheelers. Yet, skywalks aren't used by the walking citizens, who choose to run aimless cutting through traffic, contributing to the pandemonium. Subways don't fare better either, but atleast they aren't obstacles themselves.

With improved spending power of the working class, the number of vehicles on the roads has been on an upward trend and will continue to be. Although flyovers have eased the pain along the arterial roads, the scene in the inroads and other lesser important roads is terrible. And if you're a motorist who happens to be on one such road and you encounter a BEST bus here, you might as well cancel all imminent appointments and plug your ipod on to set the numbness in.

L'Oreally?

Even a decade ago, Indian youths were content with being fixated on simple stuff like hair braids, contact lenses, and new designs Bata was coming out with. They were healthy fixations that preoccupied them when they weren't mugging up brief answers in Geography or Science II.

Today, the youth's obsessions have taken an unhealthy turn. Of the many abominations that have caught the fancy of today's youth, the obsession with fairness really grinds my gears. Suddenly, this inferiority complex crept in. The need to look fairer was compounded when advertisements and brand ambassadors portrayed fairness as a pre-requisite to getting a good date, a good job, being accepted in society and what not!

Penelope Cruz and Aishwarya Rai have no idea how influencing they are when they flaunt their overpriced fairness creams and proclaim the aam janta to be 'worth it'?? what the hack? Selling someone their own 'dignity' seems to be the hand these MNC's are playing in this strange poker game of marketing. And no, they dont even get a naturally dark individual to play the part of the disillusioned non-fair person whom opportunities in life are evading. Its always a semi-fair person with a generous amount of shoe polish rubbed across the face. And within 2 weeks of applying said cream, voila! Not only are you fair, you're positively radiating, like Earth's second moon.

Playing with people's aspirations and careers for the sake of selling some tin cans isnt ethical, but hey, who cares about ethics, right? Being fairer than the person next to you is the all important difference when it comes to you getting a posh life and job. So, don't turn your ugly dark head up about this.