Eunuchs On Trains: Aboard The 7:15 To New Delhi
EUNUCHS On Trains is not the new Hollywood blockbuster, starring Dr Fonseca from EastEnders, a foundation-heavy Russell Grant and the voice of Ringo Starr.
The scene is no less chilling.
Passengers aboard the 7:32 Great Western to Paddington may care to consider goings on aboard rolling stock in New Delhi.
New Delhi’s Railway Protection Force (RPF) are on the look out for miscreants extracting money with menaces.
“The on-duty RPF staff was asked to check the illegal activity of eunuchs who were forcibly taking money from passengers”, says Additional Director General in Railway Ministry Anil Kumar Saxena to the Times of India.
Says the paper: “Most regular train passengers have a horrifying tale to tell about their brushes with eunuch’s traditional antics of hurling abuses and even taking their clothes off if the required amount is not paid for.”
As a result of the purge, 809 eunuchs were arrested by duty staffs in last year.
Were a eunuch to try the same thing in the UK, he would be met by the sight of the tops of passengers’ bowed heads, if that is he could be seen at all, given the crush of bodies.
And then there is the chance that he would be taken for any number of Bacardi-breezer laced big-boned women (insert picture of Vicky Pollard here – Ed) on their way to school.
Even if the eunuch spoke Britons would assume he was just talking on his mobile phone headset.
He would then be invited to make way for the crisps trolley, and join the rest of the standing passengers eyeing the seated ones with a mixture of envy and undiluted hatred…
Posted: 18th, May 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Strange But True Comments (11) | TrackBack | Permalink
