Sanjay Das teaches you some tricks for traveling in the Chennai buses

Landing in Chennai at 5 in the morning can be the stuff nitemares are made of, for a first time visitor. For a man who’s spend 5 good yrs with 3 yrs of hostel included, it just means one thing. Time to get ur butt on a Pallavan Transport bus. Well here’s where life plays a great leveller. Ego gets into the baggage compartment and the stubbed feet get firmly planted as the roaring hippo farts out a designer trail of black smoke and sets off. Now standing inside a PTC bus isnt really bad, if you’ve done it many times before. And with local citizenry including the dhoodhwalla, watchman and newspaperwalla for company, all u need to do is contend with bad breath and overactive sweat glands in ur immediate neighbourhood. Standing in a PTC bus is quite an art and if you havent gotten a hang of how best to work your way around inside, I suggest you let the master teach you some tricks.