New Delhi. 37-year-old Rajesh Kumar left his friends and neighbors in a mix of awe and shock when he announced that he had successfully stolen third blanket from Rajdhani Express, the Air-Conditioned trains of Indian Railways, from as many trips in the last one month. Working as an Area Sales Manager in a submersible pump manufacturing company, Rajesh completed his ‘hat-trick’ while on an official trip to meet a client.
“The attendant counted the stack twice and moved around confused in the coach, but he couldn’t find out the missing blanket in my laptop bag.” giggled Rajesh, as his friends assembled around him this morning to get the vital details of the great train robbery.
Although Rajesh didn’t share the essential tricks of the trade, he did give tips to his friends on how to confound the co-passengers as well as the attendants while making things disappear from their sight. Rajesh has amassed a wealth spanning seven towels, four pillows, six bed-sheets, four thermos-bottles, and numerous tea-kits from his train trips till date.
Rajesh loves the sight of Rajdhani Express
Having perfected the art of pilfering these paraphernalia, now Rajesh aims to rob the railways of assets like the mirrors and ceiling fans.
“It is a big challenge but I’d definitely give it a try next time.” Rajesh announced to his group of friends, who couldn’t stop marveling his towering ambitions.
“Impossible is nothing.” he added.
Rajesh refuses to accept that he is indulging in practices that are essentially criminal. His father used to work in the Indian Railways as a Depot Material Superintendent and Rajesh had been accustomed to seeing Railway property in his house since childhood.
“Even our ancestral house was painted in brick-red and yellow, the two favorite colors used by the Railways to paint every damn thing. Even to this date our house is famously known as ‘rail ghar’ in our village.” Rajesh proudly informs.
His father wanted Rajesh to take up a job in Railways but Rajesh was too interested in working in ‘private sector’ and ended up with a sales job with Om Sai Pump Makers.
“These stuff would have anyway come to my home had I heeded to my father’s advice and took up a job with the Railways. At least now I’m not taking home any salary and helping the Railways save some cost. How is this criminal?” Rajesh put forward his logic, defending his debatable deeds.
Meanwhile, the attendants of Rajdhani Express have confirmed that some blankets had gone missing in the last few weeks, but they denied the possibility of Rajesh being the culprit.
“That saab is nice. He gave us 50 rupees as sewa-paani (tip) last time he traveled.” said Gajraj Singh, the train attendant, adding that he suspected a poor looking guy, who perhaps traveled in an AC coach for the first time, to have committed the crime.
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Hahaha.. I remember two decades ago – we used to bring many chocolates etc from airline (indian airlines) travel !! i was some 8 years old then .. i still have a fork at home – which is of IA !
Hum hotel mein jab jaate hai tho chamach kaata churaate hai
going by the above story, ur father must have been working in IA then
don’t tell me u r Prafull Patel’s son or daughter
naah.. travel by IA was due to LTC of mom’s employer – one of the nationalized banks !! but we have only one fork at home for myself and that is of IA – for last 13 yrs
dont tell me IA used such a high quality material for making forks……nowadays they are not good enough to last the flight!
I have only managed to steal 10 Eclairs toffees and one knife from Rajdhani Express so far. This inspires me to do something bigger now!
u dnt steal eclairs, t5ea bags and all …………….. that is your right /
do something bigger and then claim
I lifted a kashmir wool blanket from Air India delhi to nyc..
cool stuff man..next time try to steal a bottle of wine or smthing really big
We Indians get a real kick in stealing things like bulbs from Railways — things that r of no use to us later.
Latent kleptomania?
Deriving satisfaction and getting even with the ‘establishment’ by destroying public property?
Defeating the system?
Ha ha ha.. Pagalpatrakar initiated a “Steal Contest” here… I won’t list anything but yes have used some bed sheets at my friend’s place with the “beautiful” Indian railways lebel on it!
Cheers LIFE
JD
Life is Royal.. Life is Purple… Life’s Purple…
assholes this is not cool.. Next time don’t complain about the system
No wonder the poor attendants complain..tea/coffee sachet,toffees are fine..it’s the hand towles and blankets which creates a problem. The attendants need to pay a fortune if it goes missing.. and they earn very little.
I heard that for the towel they pay somewhere around Rs 60 that too the cost of it would not be more than 20
we are only people who spoil the system and then blame on politicians , babus
…from all these small things , we start corruption …………………………………………
I agree with Anant, Charka and Amit — while this article is funny, it’s not funny to note that people have started boasting about what they lifted from where.
I haven’t stolen anything yet in my 16.5 yr life……
Wonder what people do with 50 paise shampoo packs which are useless