In the journey called ‘time’, a driver
named ‘bureaucrat’ is riding a bus called ‘policy’.
This driver is vaguely trained how to ride the bus, and is a close friend of a conductor named ‘politician’. Of course the conductor
is in charge of the trip and sells all the tickets to passengers
named ‘common man’. People buy the ticket because the conductor promises
them to take them around on a fruitful journey in a high quality bus with an
experienced driver. Then, after selling the tickets, the conductor leaves the
passengers at a bus-stand promising them to come back very soon with a bus from
a near-by depot. Meanwhile, the passengers are all excited about the journey
they are going to make and are planning to see many places along the journey. After
a while, the passengers get restless waiting for the bus to arrive. They know
that they will have to take a long journey, but the bus is nowhere in sight.
The passengers get agitated. Then, after talking to each other, the passengers
realize that each one has been sold a ticket of different price. They are now
angry and want to get hold of the conductor, but he is nowhere to be seen near
the bus-stop. In the meantime, they see many other
people called ‘elite citizens’ travelling by cars passing by the
bus-stand, but nobody stops their car to pick-up people in the bus stand. Then,
to the same bus-stand where the passengers are waiting for the bus to arrive, a
police man named ‘media’ drives in and enquires
about the lost passengers. The passengers immediately complain to the
police-man about the wait and variable prices they have paid for the journey,
and that the conductor is nowhere to be seen. Interestingly, the police man neither
knows where the conductor is nor the bus is, but goes around the bus-stop hundred-and-one
times and returns to the passengers again to enquire about their wait. Again
the passengers tell their sorry story, and now police man promises to go in
search of the conductor and the bus, and bring it to them. In the mean time,
the waiting passengers start fighting with each other for limited seats in the
bus-stand, and there is plenty of chaos all-around.
Suddenly, an old
outdated bus arrives near the bus-stop. Now, to the surprise of the waiting
passengers, the bus is completely filled with ‘elite citizens’, ‘police-men’,
and guess who? Toward the fag end of the bus, waving his hands towards the
waiting passengers is the same old ‘conductor’. The passengers really get
agitated and try to get into the bus, but they realize that the bus-doors are locked,
and there is no way to enter it. The police man inside the bus takes a picture
of all the agitated passengers and shouts “don’t
worry; we will fight for your justice inside the bus”. To add insult to the
injury, all the people in the bus laugh at the waiting passengers, make mockery
of them, and finally wave their hands bidding good-bye. The driver starts the
bus gleefully, and leaves the bus-stand right away. The conductor reminds the driver
that he has to ride the bus at a faster pace, because there are many more
bus-stands to visit on the way.
After a long
wait near the bus stand, the stranded passengers see a new conductor. He seems
to be nice guy, and promises that he is going to take them through the journey.
People are very skeptic this time, but they want to go on this journey. After a
lot of apprehension and debate among themselves, they again buy the ticket and
are waiting for the bus to arrive……….
