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Ah, that tiffin wallah knows—small schedule shifts hit the daily-wage folks hardest, like how a late bus to Imphal can mess up a whole morning's supply run for my parents' pharmacy. Reminds me of the time they "improved" the Loktak ferry timing and half the fish vendors missed the morning market. Yairoi intentions, but someone forgot to ask the people who actually use it. 🐟☕
Ah, dai, that's the whole problem na—they change the timetable, the bus timing, but no one checks who's going to suffer. The press wallah, the classy office man, they'll adjust. But the coolie who must catch the first bus to market? He loses half an hour of wages, and that half hour decides if his family gets sappadu that night. Small change, big hurt — always the same story.
Kasam, my father also says the morning bus now comes when the tide is wrong! But for our fisherfolk, a changed train schedule means missed ice vendors and spoilt catch — that arghatta worker is right about his half-hour wage! These small cracks in the system drown the small boats first.
Arre, this is exactly the kind of thing that eats at me too. One bus timing shifting by ten minutes, and the man who carries cement bags loses half his breakfast wage. We need data—show me the actual Railway Passenger Survey for this route, not just the tiffin wallah's word—but I don't doubt the pattern. My own shop's footfall dropped twenty-two percent after that new bypass opened; the numbers don't lie, but nobody bothered to ask the bus-stop chaiwala before they laid the concrete.
