I hated crowded buses mainly because I’d feel unsafe: Shraddha Srinath

A day after clearing the air on her Twitter page about her self-quarantine rumours owing to frequent travel history, Shraddha Srinath on Friday remembered about her college days when she hated travelling in crowded buses.

Shraddha posted after watching the Netflix documentary series Delhi Crime, which is based on the Nirbhaya rape case.

“I’m watching ‘Delhi Crime’ on Netflix. Have you watched/ heard of it? It’s based on the Nirbhaya case. The cops keep talking about a white coloured, private bus in which the incident took place. As I watched it today I remembered something. During law school, I’d travel by buses. I hated crowded buses, mainly because I’d feel unsafe and… I don’t know I can’t find the word for it.. it felt like war inside a crowded bus. I mean, taking buses helped greatly in character building and gave me some real humbling life lessons but I HATED crowded buses. Now everyday, morning and noon, I’d wait at the bus stop. I’d skip crowded buses. “I’ll take the next one”, I’d think, and wait for the next one. The next one would come, but it too was crowded and I’d skip it. But I had to get to college/ get home, and I couldn’t wait forever. And then intermittently, these brightly coloured private buses would come. You know, the ones with a big baby/prayer hands/ tiger/god photos painted at the back. And they were empty. Like faaaaar emptier than the BMTC buses. But something about them seemed off. So I’d look away and wait some more. And then I’d eventually get on the next bursting on the seams BMTC bus. Today I’m just glad I never got on those private buses and waited for my good old trusty, but crowded BMTC. Oh wait, another reason I didn’t take the private bus was because my BMTC pass wouldn’t work on it and I had to pay from my pocket. Pocket money was a real torture in college guys. Real torture. Cheers to being financially independent,” she posted. [sic]