The bus stops aren’t just bus stops. They are plus-sized stands that accommodate rickshaw-drivers, food and fruit vendors and others.

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The rapid morning march of city workers tells much more than a boardroom activity can. The sheer size of the population that commutes between shifts of survival is a case in point. While the labourer’s whole day runs off, the range for active cerebral awakening remains abysmally low.The bus stops aren’t just bus stops. They are plus-sized stands that accommodate rickshaw-drivers, food and fruit vendors and others that make the bus stop an odd mix of existence today. The point in question is not the organisation of the bus stop. It’s rather an investigation intent upon looking at the lives that can’t help coming to these stops every day for meagre returns.To feel the population pressure and understand it at the same time is an unfinished task every individual faces today. The feeling remains that of choking and congestion making claustrophobia a universality. The understanding, on the other hand, remains highly hard-pressed and resource-constrained. However, there do exist rare combinations of feeling and understanding in individuals spread across every century of this civilisation, fortunately.Such individuals managed to rise above the barriers as beacons who illumine the masses on looking beyond the bus stop for the milestone. Flowing and falling as perennial fountains, a Gurdjieff, a Gibran, a Kierkegaard, a Krishnamurti, a Tesla, a Tolstoy, a Socrates, a Buddha, a Lao Tzu and many more have held an eternal version of life before us.While the beacons never stop shining, it is important for us as a society to create opportunities for everyone, helping each other to advance out of a mere survival-based existence. This also includes removing present-day covert forms of obstruction to a better reality for all. This world must see our grateful side where a plant is as much attended to for its possibility as a tree is respected for its reality.abhi10stud@gmail.com Published - June 07, 2026 12:09 am IST