I can either shout or pee

Is silence a pan-Indian habit? I mean keeping quiet when one requires speaking out?

I have faced many, but the most recent was more itching than mosquitoes. It’s like this, you have spent a whole night in a non-AC bus and then in the morning before reaching your destination, you are asked to get down of the bus. Reason: There are only 9 odd passengers to that particular place in Kerala, and others are going somewhere else. So, you all better figure out your own ways… (They didn’t ask us to figure out ways, am only talking from their minds)

I guess it’s not about silence, as in what would you do when neither can you speak/understand the language nor could take the sh** of having to got down before your actual stop. I shouted! After all, it’s pissing (Hell, I needed to pee too after finishing a 10 hour long journey).

I shouted as I realized to express your anger you don’t need to know a language. It’s like language of love and vice versa. My act ashamed my friends, which I give a damn… But can’t give a damn to the popular silence.

I was asked to keep quiet as my friends felt those bus assistant would use abusive language on me. Let them, even I would if need be! A street fight is 100 times better than being silent over stupidity. Silence is as betrayal as a crime. Only in matters of heart, silence may help you. (Amen though)

When provocative Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk stood against injustice and broke the silence saying that “one million Armenians and 30,000 Kurds were killed in those lands and nobody but me will talk about it,” he was charged with denigrating the Turkish national identity and insulting Turkishness. What Pamuk showed was that a human being cannot keep quiet and not be concerned about what is happening around.

Well, I am not trying to compare my tiny act with Pamuk’s greatness. But I am inspired of this outspoken writer, for his words that can speak too.